[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-521270 ] SMTP does not handle UNICODE

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Bugs item #521270, was opened at 2002-02-21 17:36
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.1.1
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Noah Spurrier (noah)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: SMTP does not handle UNICODE

Initial Comment:
The SMTP library does not gracefully handle
<type 'unicode'> strings. This type of string
is frequently returned from a databases and
particulary when working with COM objects.

For example, we pull email TO addresses and messages
from from a database. We would like to call:
    server.sendmail(FROM, TO, message)
instead we have to do this:
    server.sendmail(FROM, str(TO), str(message))
>From a users point of view it is easy to get
around this by putting str() around every string
before calling STMP methods, but I think it would
make more sense for SMTP to convert them or
gracefully handle them.





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>Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2002-02-23 15:11

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Can you give a specific example? Please attach a script to
this report which exposes the error you are seeing (using
Unicode literals where necessary).

Perhaps you have non-ASCII characters in your strings? Those
are not supported by the SMTP protocol, so there is no way
smtplib could handle them gracefully.

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