Thomas Jollans <t...@tjol.eu> writes: > I just stumbled over some curious behaviour of the stdlib email parsing > APIs which accept strings rather than bytes. It appears that you can't > parse an 8-bit UTF-8 message you have as a str without first encoding it.
The primary purpose of an email parser is likely the parsing of RFC 822/2045 messages which are a sequence of bytes, encoded as dictated by RFC 822. Therefore, I would expect some peculiarities when you feed such a parser with general text. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
