New submission from Pablo: I used the IMAP library and I feel it lacks a lot of documentation regarding types and encoding.
Example: IMAP4.list([directory[, pattern]]): It doesn't state if it expects the directory argument to be an string (unicode) or a imap_utf7 encoded string or bytes. It also expects names with spaces to be between double quotation marks and it doesn't state that it returns a bytes raw output. This is valid for every function that receives a directory or mailbox argument. Also for most return values. Documentation aside, I think it would be a nice improvement in the implementation to add an imap_utf7 convertion function, and check every directory or mailbox argument to see if it has characters outside the imap_utf7 charset and attempts to convert them automatically. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 241812 nosy: docs@python, pmoleri priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: IMAP library lacks documentation about expected parameter types type: enhancement versions: Python 3.4 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24027> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
