[Python-Dev] Patch making the current email package (mostly) support bytes (original) (raw)

R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Fri Oct 8 19:39:55 CEST 2010

On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 23:55:37 +0900, "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:

I should think you want addresses and suchlike structured headers (Content-Type with several RFC 2231 parameters, anyone?) to line up nicely, too. So generic folding algorithms are really only applicable to unstructured text fields like Subject and Summary anyway.

You can call that "sucky" if you like, I prefer to call it "tasteful."

No, what's sucky is that email4/5 doesn't support that. It only folds headers as unstructured blobs, with a nod in the direction of structure by breaking lines at "obvious" places like ';'s. (Which line breaking algorithm is the subject of at least one bug report....)

I'd like to fix that in email6 by adding full support for structured headers.

-- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com

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