[Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X

Sat Jun 19 15:57:47 CEST 2010

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Michael Foord wrote:
> I didn't make myself clear. The expected disappointment I was referring 
> to was about the rate of adoption, not about the quality of the product.
>> I'm still baffled as to how a bug in the cgi module (along with the 
> acknowledged email problems) is such a big deal. Was it reported and 
> then languished in the bug tracker? That would be bad ion its own but if 
> it was only recently discovered that indicates that it probably isn't 
> such a big deal - either way it needs fixing, but using Python for 
> writing cgis hasn't been a big use case for a long time.

FWIW: some APIs in the cgi module is actually used by a number of
Python2 web frameworks and libraries: Paste, for instance, uses it, and
is in turn used by BFG, Pylons, TurboGears. Zope has used it that way
since for ever.
Tres.
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