2011 Blog Posts

• March 2011 Blog Posts
  • 2011-03-22 Email6 Development Restart
  • 2011-03-28 Policy Framework First Draft
• April 2011 Blog Posts
  • 2011-04-04 Hooking Up Email6 Policy: First Steps
    • Defects
    • Improving coverage by deleting code
    • Conforming to PEP 8
    • ASCII-only Binary Email Transformation
    • assertBytesEqual
    • Public Review
  • 2011-04-11 Rewriting Header Folding: Less Code = Fewer Bugs
    • Header Folding
    • Quick Hacks That Aren’t So Quick
    • Hard Problems Tend to Produce Impenetrable Code
    • Interpreting the RFC
    • Knowing When Your Algorithm Has Reached Its Breaking Point
    • Knowing What Doesn’t Work Is Half the Battle
    • Solid Foundations
  • 2011-04-20 Checkins and Next Steps
    • No More header_indent
    • max_line_len, and Done (For Now)
    • Unicode Realnames and IDNA
    • Completing the Bytes Parser API Set
    • The First Major Chunks Committed
    • Next Steps: Headers Everywhere
• May 2011 Blog Posts
  • 2011-05-02 Headers Everywhere
    • String Plus
    • An API For All Occasions
    • Deprecation Plans
    • Factory Functions As Policy
    • Dynamic Header Classes
    • Next Steps
  • 2011-05-23 Headers and Header Classes
    • _HeaderList
    • Unique Headers
    • Unstructured Headers
    • Date Headers
    • Address Headers
    • Header Class Restructure
    • Next Steps (In Progress)
• June 2011 Blog Posts
  • 2011-06-08 An RFC822 Parser
    • Background
    • Why Write a Special Purpose Parser?
    • Design of the Parser
    • Examples
    • Integration with the Header Parser
    • What’s Missing
• July 2011 Blog Posts
  • 2011-07-13 Email6 Status and Summer Vacation
    • Summer Vacation
    • Renamings
    • Simplification of Header Parsing
    • Pickling Support
    • Address Reformatting
    • Miscellaneous
    • Next Steps
  • 2011-07-25 First PyPI Release of Email6
    • Datetime Handling and Localtime
    • Documentation
    • Building a Standalone Release
    • Address Parsing Improvements
    • Header Wrapping
    • Next Steps