[Email-SIG] [Python-Dev] Dropping bytes "support" in json

[Barry Warsaw]

On Apr 10, 2009, at 11:08 AM, James Y Knight wrote:

> Until you write a parser for every header, you simply cannot decode  
> to unicode. The only sane choices are:
> 1) raw bytes
> 2) parsed structured data

The email package does not need a parser for every header, but it  
should provide a framework that applications (or third party  
libraries) can use to extend the built-in header parsers.  A bare  
minimum for functionality requires a Content-Type parser.  I think the  
email package should also include an address header (Originator,  
Destination) parser, and a Message-ID header parser.  Possibly  
others.  The default would probably be some unstructured parser for  
headers like Subject.

-Barry

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