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

[Barry Warsaw]

On Apr 10, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Glenn Linderman wrote:

> If one name has to be longer than the other, it should be the bytes  
> version.  Real user code is more likely to want to use the text  
> version, and hopefully there will be more of that type of code than  
> implementations using bytes.
>
> Of course, one could use message.header and message.bythdr and  
> they'd be the same length.

Actually, thinking about this over the weekend, it's much better for  
message['subject'] to return a Header instance in all cases.  Use  
bytes(header) to get the raw bytes.

A good API for getting the parsed and decoded header values needs to  
take into account that it won't always be a string.  For unstructured  
headers like Subject, str(header) would work just fine.  For an  
Originator or Destination address, what does str(header) return?  And  
what would be the API for getting the set of realname/addresses out of  
the header?

-Barry

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