[Gmailagent-devel] Re: Extended contact info support for libgmail

[Stas Z <sta...@gm...>]

On 9/17/05, Andrew Lin <one...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
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> Two weeks ago I sent the following email to fol...@my...,
> but looking at the latest credits in libgmail.py I realize that I may
> have done better to send it to you:
Normally he forwards them to us, but I fear he's forgot this one :-(
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> "Apologies if you would rather I post this to a bug report or mailing
> list; just let me know.
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http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gmailagent-devel

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> Lacking a reply I decided to write something simple for myself.
> Nonetheless, I'm still curious to know if you would be interested in
> adding such functionality to libgmail.  FYI, my module can be found at
> http://mattpanaro.us/~andrew/gmail.py ; it is of course pre-pre-alpha,
> use only on a test account, etc.  Please feel free to use whatever
> code or ideas from it you want.
Great, thanks.
We certainly want to add such extended support to libgmail.
From a quick look at your module I saw that you put in a little pause betwe=
en
calls, just the thing i want to add to libgmail this morning. Saves me some=
 work
this mail from you :-)

> Also, in the course of this project, I discovered a bug in libgmail:
> put ");" in the notes field of a contact, and attempt to download
> contacts, and the parser will incorrectly interpret that as the end of
> the D(); call, and fail.  I get around this by defining D(); as a
> Python function and using exec.
Thanks again.
I will look at you module and contact you about my findings.
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Regards,
Stas Zytkiewicz


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