[New-bugs-announce] [issue28806] Improve the netrc library

[Xiang Zhang]

New submission from Xiang Zhang:

netrc library now gets some problems:

1. All tokens are mandatory. (#28780)
2. Token values are limited to a limited set of characters. (#557704)
3. Does not complain about macro definition without a null line.
4. If the login name is anonymous, security check is not needed.

Propose a patch to handle these. I treat it as an enhancement of the existing library instead of bug fix.

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components: Library (Lib)
files: netrc.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 281767
nosy: haypo, xiang.zhang
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: patch review
status: open
title: Improve the netrc library
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.7
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file45651/netrc.patch

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