Re: [Python-Dev] [Email-SIG] headers api for email package

2009-05-01 Thread Chris Withers
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > str(message['Subject']) > > Yes for unstructured headers like Subject. For structured headers... > hmm. Well, suppose we get really radical here. *People* see email as (rich-)text. So ... message['Subject'] returns an object, partly to be consistent with

Re: [Python-Dev] [Email-SIG] headers api for email package

2009-04-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:15:20 am Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > *People* see email as (rich-)text. We do? It's not clear what you actually mean by "(rich-)text". In the context of email, I understand it to mean HTML in the body, web-bugs, security exploits, 36pt hot-pink bold text on a lime-green

Re: [Python-Dev] [Email-SIG] headers api for email package

2009-04-13 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Barry Warsaw writes: > On Apr 11, 2009, at 8:39 AM, Chris Withers wrote: > > > Barry Warsaw wrote: > >> >>> message['Subject'] > >> The raw bytes or the decoded unicode? > > > > A header object. > > Yep. You got there before I did. :) > > >> Okay, so you've picked one. Now how do yo