Mauro Cicognini added the comment:
David, that is exactly what I meant: functionality for Python 3 is less than
the functionality available for Python 2, and behavior is completely out of
sync with the documentation.
Bug or not, and independent of the root cause (I don't know if anyone
Mauro Cicognini added the comment:
The removal of the dead code causes imaplib under py3k to lose the quoting
functionality that is described in documentation (except for passwords, that do
get always quoted as stated).
I submit that we give at least a temporary warning in the docs, and that
