[Email-SIG] email.header.decode_header eats my spaces

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Mar 26, 2007, at 7:39 PM, Jasper Spaans wrote:

> Today I was playing around with the decode_header function of the
> email.header module, and it is eating my spaces.
> Some people have filed bugs about this [1] [2] and have proposed the
> following patch, which to me seems to be obviously correct:
>
> Is there any reason for this not to be incorporated into the package?

Have you run the test suite with this change?

I've been working on a branch since Pycon, which tries to fix this  
and pass all the unit tests.  ISTR that this patch causes several  
tests to fail.  However, resolving the tests was like pulling a  
thread from a sweater.  It now leads me to think that we really  
aren't true to RFC 2822 wrt folding whitespace.  However, I haven't  
been able to fix that without breaking some current assumptions in  
the email package.  I've been trying to get my branch to a point  
where it passes all the tests before I posted a message here, but I  
haven't had a chance to finish it yet.

I'll try to get to that and follow up here in a day or so.

- -Barry

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