From 742e39296a80a72cba06fdfd3b25abbb6e723885 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:10:43 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Bug #1249573: fix rfc822.parsedate not accepting a certain
 date format  (backport from rev. 53522)

---
 Lib/rfc822.py | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Lib/rfc822.py b/Lib/rfc822.py
index d6d5e471297..14cc7297f1d 100644
--- a/Lib/rfc822.py
+++ b/Lib/rfc822.py
@@ -854,6 +854,11 @@ def parsedate_tz(data):
     if data[0][-1] in (',', '.') or data[0].lower() in _daynames:
         # There's a dayname here. Skip it
         del data[0]
+    else:
+        # no space after the "weekday,"?
+        i = data[0].rfind(',')
+        if i >= 0:
+            data[0] = data[0][i+1:]
     if len(data) == 3: # RFC 850 date, deprecated
         stuff = data[0].split('-')
         if len(stuff) == 3: