Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: The aforementioned python-dev thread (available at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-June/101186.html ) explains things quite well. The mailbox module needs to be modified to use binary I/O, both for functionality and for speed. Right now, I don't know how the mailbox module can be useful in py3k (you'd quickly run into unicode errors as soon as you try to read an email with another charset, I think).
---------- stage: unit test needed -> needs patch title: Mailbox module demonstrates infeasibly slow performance -> Mailbox module should use binary I/O, not text I/O type: performance -> behavior versions: +Python 3.2, Python 3.3 -Python 3.1 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9124> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com