[Python-Dev] Rework nntlib? (original) (raw)

Senthil Kumaran orsenthil at gmail.com
Tue Sep 14 13:04:33 CEST 2010

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:44:30PM +0200, Baptiste Carvello wrote:

> Antoine> Like the email package, nntplib in py3k is broken (because of > Antoine> various bytes/str mismatches; I suppose the lack of a test > Antoine> suite didn't help when porting). > >How heavily used is nntp these days (unless you're looking for spam)? Would >it make more sense to find someone willing to maintain it outside the Python >core and just remove it altogether? > Reading this from GMANE ;-)

I guess, Skip's question or intention was, how often nntplib as a module is being used these days to write scripts/tools or clients? Very rarely.

It would definitely be interesting to know, if there are python applications out there which are using nntplib at the moment.

-- Senthil

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