Change rfc822_escape() to ensure there's a consistent amount of whitespace

after each newline, instead of just blindly inserting a space at
   the start of each line.  (Improvement suggested by Thomas Wouters)
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Andrew M. Kuchling 2001-03-23 17:30:26 +00:00
parent aa90adcfb9
commit 88b0884787
1 changed files with 4 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -446,10 +446,11 @@ byte_compile(files, optimize=%s, force=%s,
def rfc822_escape (header):
"""Return a version of the string escaped for inclusion in an
RFC-822 header, by adding a space after each newline.
RFC-822 header, by ensuring there are 8 spaces space after each newline.
"""
header = string.rstrip(header)
header = string.replace(header, '\n', '\n ')
lines = string.split(header, '\n')
lines = map(string.strip, lines)
header = string.join(lines, '\n' + 8*' ')
return header