[Email-SIG] Non-string headers

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 03:23:25PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> Actually, all header names are converted to strings, via modulo
> operator.

   Huh?

from email import MIMEText
msg = MIMEText.MIMEText("This is a simple message", _charset="latin-1")

msg["Subject"] = "Text"
msg[1] = "test"

print str(msg)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./text.py", line 10, in ?
    print str(msg)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/email/Message.py", line 116, in __str__
    return self.as_string(unixfrom=True)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/email/Message.py", line 130, in as_string
    g.flatten(self, unixfrom=unixfrom)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/email/Generator.py", line 103, in flatten
    self._write(msg)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/email/Generator.py", line 138, in _write
    self._write_headers(msg)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/email/Generator.py", line 184, in _write_headers
    header_name=h, continuation_ws='\t').encode()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/email/Header.py", line 198, in __init__
    self._firstlinelen = maxlinelen - len(header_name) - 2
TypeError: len() of unsized object

Oleg.
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