[ python-Bugs-1036506 ] Email module's feed parser

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Bugs item #1036506, was opened at 2004-09-28 14:59
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Category: Python Library
Group: Not a Bug
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Matthew Cowles (mdcowles)
>Assigned to: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw)
Summary: Email module's feed parser

Initial Comment:
Barry asked me to open this so as to attach the message.

If the feed parser parsers a message that has a content-type 
of multipart/<something> but which contains only a single 
part, the resulting Message object is internally 
inconsistent: get_main_type() returns "multipart" but 
is_multipart() returns False.

I don't think that this is actually a bug because figuring out 
the right content-type to assign would require groveling 
through the payload with a bunch of messy heuristics. It 
seems to me that the standard library isn't the place for 
messy heuristics.

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