On Sep 14, 2010, at 11:28 AM, Michael Foord wrote: > On 14/09/2010 11:17, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Like the email package, nntplib in py3k is broken (because of >> various bytes/str mismatches; I suppose the lack of a test suite >> didn't help when porting). >> >> I would like to take the opportunity to improve the API a bit; no >> heavy re-architecting, but simply a bunch of changes to make it >> higher-level. Is it acceptable? >> >> (and, yes, I would add a test suite) >> > >Given that backwards incompatible changes are likely to be unavoidable >due to the bytes / str issue, taking the opportunity to cleanup and >improve the API sounds great. Just a shame we didn't get to it for >3.0, but thank you for picking this up.
A side benefit may be that Antoine finds some clever, useful, and more generally applicable techniques for dealing with byte/strings in these contexts. That would be time well spent, and may transfer to work on the email package too for example. -Barry
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