[Mailman-Developers] Scrubber mungs Quoted Printable

[Tokio Kikuchi]

Hi Mark,

I've just committed my patch to this problem in 2.1 CVS branch.  I used 
this example and looks OK for both with and without 
Content-Transfer-Encoding header.

Mark Sapiro wrote:

> The following is a transcript of a Python interactive session that
> illustrates the above problems with set_payload() and get_payload().
> This session is with Python 2.4.1, but exactly the same behavior
> occurs with 2.3.4 and 2.4.2.
> 
> Python 2.4.1 (#1, May 27 2005, 18:02:40)
> [GCC 3.3.3 (cygwin special)] on cygwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> 
>>>>import email
>>>>
>>>>msg = email.message_from_file(open('plain2.eml'))
>>>>
>>>>print msg
> 
>>From nobody Mon Nov 28 09:18:41 2005
> From: "Mark Sapiro" <msapiro at value.net>
> To: list1 at localhost
> Subject: HTML - all
> Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 09:02:33 -0800
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> 
> 
> How about just a line of stuff with some ==== and a few words.
> 
> X=91**2 (x is 91 squared)
> 
> 
>>>>del msg['content-type']
>>>>del msg['content-transfer-encoding']
>>>>msg.set_payload(str(msg.get_payload()), 'iso-8859-1')
>>>>
>>>>print msg
> 
>>From nobody Mon Nov 28 09:18:41 2005
> From: "Mark Sapiro" <msapiro at value.net>
> To: list1 at localhost
> Subject: HTML - all
> Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 09:02:33 -0800
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> 
> 
> How about just a line of stuff with some =3D=3D=3D=3D and a few words.
> 
> X=3D91**2 (x is 91 squared)
> 
> 
>>>>print msg.get_payload()
> 
> 
> How about just a line of stuff with some ==== and a few words.
> 
> X=91**2 (x is 91 squared)
> 
> 
>>>>print msg.get_payload(decode=1)
> 
> 
> How about just a line of stuff with some == and a few words.
> 
> X`**2 (x is 91 squared)
> 


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