On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:30:12 -0400 "R. David Murray" <rdmur...@bitdance.com> wrote: > > And then BaseHeader uses self.lit.colon, etc, when manipulating strings. > It also has to use slice notation rather than indexing when looking at > individual characters, which is a PITA but not terrible. > > I'm not saying this is the best approach, since this is all experimental > code at the moment, but it is *an* approach....
Out of curiousity, can you explain why polymorphism is needed for e-mail? I would assume that headers are bytes until they are parsed, at which point they become a pair of unicode strings (one for the header name and one for its value). Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
