[BUG] offlineimap stopped picking up passwords from netrc

[Łukasz Żarnowiecki]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 07:08:25PM +0200, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 06:10:05PM +0200, Łukasz Żarnowiecki wrote:
> 
> > 08e17de7e289384514f67903e2f609c8c83d50a5
> > 
> > This commit introduces regression which causes Python 3 to be not able
> > to authenticate with password taken from netrc while Python 2 version
> > remains good.
> 
> Yes. As said in
> 
> https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap/pull/341#discussion_r67436489
> 
> the netrc feature is the last remaining quering method of password not
> supporting Unicode correctly. I did not implement this myself because of
> my lazyness.

Sure, I missed that, sorry.

> > You were to fast this time with introducing this change :)  We need to
> > more carefully test our changes on both versions.
> 
> I don't think I've been too quick about that since I knew the above
> limitation. The patch is improving the current state of the expected
> types while it's still not complete.

Yes, it is obious now.

Thank you