Aw: Re: Another 2 to 3 mail encoding problem

2020-08-27 Thread Karsten Hilbert
> Because of this, the Python 3 str type is not suitable to store an email > message, since it insists on the string being Unicode encoded, I should greatly appreciate to be enlightened as to what a "string being Unicode encoded" is intended to say ? Thanks, Karsten -- https://mail.python.org/ma

Aw: Re: Another 2 to 3 mail encoding problem

2020-08-27 Thread Karsten Hilbert
> Terry Reedy wrote: > > On 8/26/2020 11:10 AM, Chris Green wrote: > > > > > I have a simple[ish] local mbox mail delivery module as follows:- > > ... > > > It has run faultlessly for many years under Python 2. I've now > > > changed the calling program to Python 3 and while it handles most > > >