Briefly (from the NEWS file):
- Updates for the email package:
+ All deprecated APIs that in email 2.x issued warnings have been removed:
_encoder argument to the MIMEText constructor, Message.add_payload(),
Utils.dump_address_pair(), Utils.decode(), Utils.encode()
+ New deprecations: Generator.__call__(), Message.get_type(),
Message.get_main_type(), Message.get_subtype(), the 'strict' argument to
the Parser constructor. These will be removed in email 3.1.
+ Support for Python earlier than 2.3 has been removed (see PEP 291).
+ All defect classes have been renamed to end in 'Defect'.
+ Some FeedParser fixes; also a MultipartInvariantViolationDefect will be
added to messages that claim to be multipart but really aren't.
+ Updates to documentation.
> ----------------------------
> revision 1.20.4.4
> date: 2003/06/12 09:14:17; author: anthonybaxter; state: Exp; lines: +13 -6
> preamble is None when missing, not ''.
> Handle a couple of bogus formatted messages - now parses my main testsuite.
> Handle message/external-body.
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> revision 1.20.4.3
> date: 2003/06/12 07:16:40; author: anthonybaxter; state: Exp; lines: +6 -4
> epilogue-processing is now the same as the old parser - the newline at the
> end of the line with the --endboundary-- is included as part of the epilogue.
> Note that any whitespace after the boundary is _not_ part of the epilogue.
> ----------------------------
> revision 1.20.4.2
> date: 2003/06/12 06:39:09; author: anthonybaxter; state: Exp; lines: +6 -4
> message/delivery-status fixed.
> HeaderParser fixed.
> ----------------------------
> revision 1.20.4.1
> date: 2003/06/12 06:08:56; author: anthonybaxter; state: Exp; lines: +163 -129
> A work-in-progress snapshot of the new parser. A couple of known problems:
>
> - first (blank) line of MIME epilogues is being consumed
> - message/delivery-status isn't quite right
>
> It still needs a lot of cleanup, but right now it parses a whole lot of
> badness that the old parser failed on. I also need to think about adding
> back the old 'strict' flag in some way.
> =============================================================================
where in lax parsing, the first non-header line after a header block
(e.g. the first line not containing a colon, and not a continuation),
can be treated as the first body line, even without the RFC mandated
blank line separator.
rfc822 had this behavior, and I vaguely remember problems with this,
but can't remember details. In any event, all the tests still pass,
so I guess we'll find out. ;/
This patch works by returning the non-header, non-continuation line
from _parseheader() and using that as the first header line prepended
to fp.read() if given. It's usually None.
We use this approach instead of trying to seek/tell the file-like
object.
multipart/digest isn't a message/rfc822. This is legal, but counter
to recommended practice in RFC 2046, $5.1.5.
The fix is to look at the content type after setting the default
content type. If the maintype is then message or multipart, attach
the parsed subobject, otherwise use set_payload() to set the data of
the other object.
get_type(). Also, one of the regular expressions is constant so might
as well make it a module global. And, when splitting up digests,
handle lineseps that are longer than 1 character in length
(e.g. \r\n).
quoting:
in non-strict mode, messages don't require a blank line at the end
with a missing end-terminator. A single newline is sufficient now.
Handle trailing whitespace at the end of a boundary. Had to switch
from using string.split() to re.split()
Handle whitespace on the end of a parameter list for Content-type.
Handle whitespace on the end of a plain content-type header.
Specifically,
get_type(): Strip the content type string.
_get_params_preserve(): Strip the parameter names and values on both
sides.
_parsebody(): Lots of changes as described above, with some stylistic
changes by Barry (who hopefully didn't screw things up ;).
argument to the constructor -- defaulting to true -- which is
different than Anthony's approach of using global state.
parse(), parsestr(): Grow a `headersonly' argument which stops parsing
once the header block has been seen, i.e. it does /not/ parse or even
read the body of the message. This is used for parsing message/rfc822
type messages.
We need test cases for the non-strict parsing. Anthony will supply
these.
_parsebody(): We can get rid of the isdigest end-of-line kludges,
although we still need to know if we're parsing a multipart/digest so
we can set the default type accordingly.
email package's Parser to handle the three common line endings.
Certain protocols such as IMAP define CRLF line endings and it doesn't
make sense for the client app to have to normalize the line endings
before handing it message off to the Parser.
_parsebody(): Be more flexible in the matching of line endings for
finding the MIME separators. Accept any of \r, \n and \r\n. Note
that we do /not/ change the line endings in the payloads, we just
accept any of those three around MIME boundaries.
non-us-ascii character sets in headers and bodies. Some API changes
(with DeprecationWarnings for the old APIs). Better RFC-compliant
implementations of base64 and quoted-printable.
Updated test cases. Documentation updates to follow (after I finish
writing them ;).
headers. It does not parse the body of the message, instead simply
assigning it as a string to the container's payload. This can be much
faster when you're only interested in a message's header.
Also, add a clause to the big-if to handle message/delivery-status
content types. These create a message with subparts that are
Message instances, which best represent the header blocks of this
content type.
<http://sf.net/projects/mimelib>. There /are/ API differences between
mimelib and email, but most of the implementations are shared (except
where cool Py2.2 stuff like generators are used).
Barry Warsaw
Thomas Wouters
Tim Peters