[Email-SIG] [Python-Dev] the email module, text, and bytes (was Re: Dropping bytes "support" in json)

[Barry Warsaw]

On Apr 10, 2009, at 3:06 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> Bill Janssen writes:
>> Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
>>
>>> In that case, we really need the
>>> bytes-in-bytes-out-bytes-in-the-chewy-
>>> center API first, and build things on top of that.
>>
>> Yep.
>
> Uh, I hate to rain on a parade, but isn't that how we arrived at the
> *current* email package?

Not really.  We got here because <ahem>we</ahem> were too damn sloppy  
about the distinction.

I'm going to remove python-dev from subsequent follow ups.  Please  
join us at email-sig for further discussion.

Barry

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