Re: [Python-Dev] [Email-SIG] headers api for email package

2009-05-01 Thread Chris Withers
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: str(message['Subject']) Yes for unstructured headers like Subject. For structured headers... hmm. Well, suppose we get really radical here. *People* see email as (rich-)text. So ... message['Subject'] returns an object, partly to be consistent with

Re: [Python-Dev] [Email-SIG] headers api for email package

2009-04-13 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Barry Warsaw writes: On Apr 11, 2009, at 8:39 AM, Chris Withers wrote: Barry Warsaw wrote: message['Subject'] The raw bytes or the decoded unicode? A header object. Yep. You got there before I did. :) Okay, so you've picked one. Now how do you spell the other way?

Re: [Python-Dev] [Email-SIG] headers api for email package

2009-04-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:15:20 am Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: *People* see email as (rich-)text. We do? It's not clear what you actually mean by (rich-)text. In the context of email, I understand it to mean HTML in the body, web-bugs, security exploits, 36pt hot-pink bold text on a lime-green