[MERGE] An SMTPConnection class for bzrlib

[Adeodato Simó]

* John Arbash Meinel [Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:55:22 -0500]:

> There is a small (major?) problem in that in python2.4 they are called
> "email.Utils" and in python2.5 they are called "email.utils". Come to think of
> it, that case isn't handled in the patch (bzr-email does).

> In bzr-email I do:

> try:
>     # python <= 2.4
>     from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
>     from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
>     from email.Utils import parseaddr
> except ImportError:
>     # python 2.5 moved MIMEText into a better namespace
>     from email.mime.text import MIMEText
>     from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
>     from email.utils import parseaddr

I saw that in bzr-email, of course. However, importing the uppercase
modules does not raise an exception in python 2.5, and I can't see any
mention of this issue in the What's New document, nor a Warning is
raised, so I assume the upper case modules are not going away, and will
never raise an ImportError.

If with this explanation you would still like to see the try/except
block, just say so and I'll add it. But I think it's unnecessary. :-)

Cheers,

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