[Spambayes] RE: Further Improvement 2
John Draper
crunch@shopip.com
Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:02:16 -0700
>>>>>> "GvR" == Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:
>
> GvR> Done now. The only thing that required being awake was
> GvR> figuring out what to use instead of get_content_[main]type(),
> GvR> which are new in the 2.3 email package.
>
>Note that Python 2.2.1's email package is different than Python 2.3's
>in many ways, some of them perhaps significant to spambayes. For
>example, 2.3's parser has a lax mode so that malformed messages won't
>just crap out with an exception.
So, what does it take to use the new email package with the older 2.2.1. Is there a HUGE dependancy involved?
>
>get_content_type() and friends is another useful change. According to
>the RFCs, all messages/parts have a content type, which may be an
>implicit default. Python 2.2's email package didn't support this by
>2.3's does.
How hard would it be to add just the new email module (and other modules) to the older 2.2.1?
>
>You might want to grab email 2.3.1 from the mimelib project on
>SourceForge. It's identical to what's in Python 2.3's cvs right now.
JOhn