[issue9124] Mailbox module should use binary I/O, not text I/O

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at 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).

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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

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