At 2:30 AM +0100 2005-02-08, Brad Knowles wrote:
The latest crisis that has me wondering is the subject prefix stuff. Looking in NewsRunner.py, starting at line 104, we have:
# Should we restore the original, non-prefixed subject for gatewayed # messages? origsubj = msgdata.get('origsubj') if not mlist.news_prefix_subject_too and origsubj is not None: del msg['subject'] msg['subject'] = origsubj
Okay, I broke down and bought the three primary Python books -- Learning, Programming, and Nutshell. Looking at the string functions, and not accounting for MIME encoding, Unicode encoding, or subject numbering, to my naïeve perspective, it looks like we should be able to turn this into something like the following:
# Should we restore the original, non-prefixed subject for gatewayed
# messages?
origsubj = msgdata.get('origsubj')
if not mlist.news_prefix_subject_too and origsubj is not None:
stripped_subj = subject.replace(r'\s*'+subject_prefix+r'\s*', ' ')
del msg['subject']
msg['subject'] = stripped_subj
The s.replace() function should grab any leading whitespace and trailing whitespace surrounding the subject_prefix, and replace all of that with a single space character.
Now, to go off and look at CookHeaders.py and see just how far off I am....-- Brad Knowles, <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org>
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