[Python-3000] No rc2 tonight

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Oct 17, 2008, at 4:36 AM, Victor Stinner wrote:

>> 1210 imaplib does not run under Python 3
>> 3727 poplib module broken by str to unicode conversion
>>   - These both have patches that need review
>> 3714 nntplib module broken by str to unicode conversion
>>   - This issue seems pretty far from resolution
>
> I worked on these modules. First I tried to use unicode everywhere  
> but then I
> realized that each email can use a different encoding. Using a fixed  
> charset
> is meanless, that's why I wrote new patches (for poplib and imaplib)  
> to
> return emails (and other status messages) as bytes strings.
>
> Since nntplib also transport emails, I think that my current patch
> (nntplib_unicode.patch) is invalid and I should write another one  
> using
> bytes. If I don't have time to fix it quickly, please leave 3714 at
> state "deferred blocker".

Ok.

> Barry: you closed the issue #4125 but the specified revision number  
> is the
> commit fixing issue #3988. runtests.sh have to use the -bb flag!

Yeah, finger fart there.  It's now committed.

- -Barry

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