R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> added the comment:
Because the RFCs are defined only for ascii. Non-ascii in RFC 2822 addresses is an RFC violation. In python2 non-ascii would usually round-trip through these functions, but again that was an accident. If you'd like to propose a doc clarification that would be fine, but the clarification would be that behavior on strings containing non-ascii is undefined. Note that these functions are considered soft-deprecated...they are in modules that are in the "Legacy API" section of the email docs. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue35222> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
