Blog

• 2009 Blog Posts
  • December 2009 Blog Posts
    • 2009-12-30 First Post
• 2010 Blog Posts
  • January 2010 Blog Posts
    • 2010-01-07 Barracuda Web Filter Small Gotchas
  • February 2010 Blog Posts
    • 2010-02-03 A Simple RSS Generator For My Sphinx Based Blog
• 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
• 2012 Blog Posts
  • March 2012 Blog Posts
    • 2012-03-18 Email6: PyCon Presentation and New Development
      • PyCon Presentation
      • Sprint results
      • Shout Outs
      • Next Steps
  • September 2012 Blog Posts
    • 2012-09-03 Email6 in Python 3.3
      • The Policy is the Key
      • Provisional Status
      • What Does the New World Look Like?
• 2013 Blog Posts
  • August 2013 Blog Posts
    • August is Email Development Month
    • Proposed Enhanced MIME Handling API
      • The Current API
      • Email-SIG Initial Design Thoughts Run Aground
      • Thoughts About An Alterantive
      • A Framework for Handling MIME
        • Content Management
        • Building Multipart Messages
      • Feedback Time
    • Is No Review a Good Review?
  • November 2013 Blog Posts
    • Bug of the Day: issue 19626 (closed)
    • Bug of the Day: issue 19449 (closed)
  • December 2013 Blog Posts
    • Bug of the Month: issue 19063 (closed)
    • Bug of the Day: issue 19957 (closed)
    • Bug of the Day: issue 18036 (closed)
    • Bug of the Day: issue 19532 (closed)
• 2014 Blog Posts
  • September 2014 Blog Posts
    • Asyncio Implementation Overview