Problems with email.Generator.Generator

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Mon Sep 11 15:14:03 EDT 2006


Chris Withers wrote:
> Steve Holden wrote:
> 
>>> Is there a how-to for this anywhere? The email package's docs are 
>>> short on examples involving charsets, unicode and the like :-(
>>>
>> Well, it would seem like the easiest approach is to monkey-patch the 
>> use of cStringIO to StringIO as recommended and see if that fixes your 
>> problem. Wouldn't it?
> 
> 
> No, not really, since at best that's a nasty (and I meant really nasty) 
> hack. I'm using the email package as part of a library that I'm building 
> which is to be used with various frameworks. Monkey patching modules is 
> about as bad as it gets in that situation...
> 
> At worst, and most likely based on my past experience of (c)StringIO 
> being used to accumulate output, it won't make a jot of difference...
> 
Under those circumstances you probably know best ...

regards
  Steve
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