Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: #665194: support roundtripping RFC2822 date stamps in the email.utils module
On 7/20/2011 11:41 AM, r.david.murray wrote:
diff --git a/Lib/email/utils.py b/Lib/email/utils.py
# We need wormarounds for bugs in these methods in older Pythons (see below)
Is 'wormaround' (variation of workaround) an intentional play on the fact that some worms prey on other 'bugs' ;-? (rather then eating plant matter?) Terry
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:12:42 -0400 Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
On 7/20/2011 11:41 AM, r.david.murray wrote:
diff --git a/Lib/email/utils.py b/Lib/email/utils.py
# We need wormarounds for bugs in these methods in older Pythons (see below)
Is 'wormaround' (variation of workaround) an intentional play on the fact that some worms prey on other 'bugs' ;-? (rather then eating plant matter?)
Or perhaps worms dig their way carefully around known bugs?
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:40:17 +0200, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:12:42 -0400 Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
On 7/20/2011 11:41 AM, r.david.murray wrote:
diff --git a/Lib/email/utils.py b/Lib/email/utils.py
# We need wormarounds for bugs in these methods in older Pythons (see below)
Is 'wormaround' (variation of workaround) an intentional play on the fact that some worms prey on other 'bugs' ;-? (rather then eating plant matter?)
Or perhaps worms dig their way carefully around known bugs?
Hexlify, wormaround...our Barry is just full of interesting words :) -- R. David Murray http://www.bitdance.com
R. David Murray writes:
Hexlify, wormaround...our Barry is just full of interesting words :)
Not "full" at all---there's no there there to put them in. He's a generator! The FLUFL-always-uses-efficient-idioms-ly y'rs,
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