Andrew McNamara writes:
> However - charset encoding is part of the MIME spec, so users have a
> reasonable expectation that the mime lib will present them with unicode.
> So the API needs to be unicode.
It needs to /include/ unicode functionality. However, this might very
well be lazy (a fun
>>What about smtplib or smtpd?
>
>Yes, they should use bytes,
I agree. imaplib, poplib and smtplib are wire protocols, and should be
8-bit clean (SMTP in particular). The APIs are little more than the wire
protocol, so I think it's apprioriate they present bytes to their users
also (and there is
