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

R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Mon Sep 20 04:25:36 CEST 2010

On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 06:55:50 +1000, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote: > > For the record, the code is pretty much done now: > http://bugs.python.org/issue9360

Generally looks pretty reasonable. As I noted on the issue, my one concern is that the current API seems to rely on the programmer remembering which methods return strings and which return bytes without any consistent mnemonic as to which is which.

The mnemonic is: raw message data is bytes, everything else is unicode. That is, the content of head, body, article, post, and ihave commands is bytes, otherwise you are dealing with strings. I think it is a very clear and obvious distinction, myself.

--David

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