Barry A. Warsaw <ba...@python.org> added the comment: dato: We've started some branches that try to address this, by exposing both a read-a-buncha-bytes interface and a read-a-string interface.
rdm: As it turns out, yes. There are use cases for reading a string containing only ascii bytes. In general, this is part of the big tricky problem in fixing the email package for Python 3.x. We had great debates about this at Pycon with no resolution, and I think everyone has just been too busy to engage on this since then. :( email-sig is the best place to try to rally some effort. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4661> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
