[New-bugs-announce] [issue46580] email.utils.unquote strips too many slashes

[hbandi]

New submission from hbandi <e3b11cd2 at uucp.hu>:

email.utils.unquote currently unescapes all backslashes, then unescapes all double quotes in the resulting string. it may removes too many backslashes. see GH PR for an example.

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components: email
messages: 412137
nosy: barry, hbandi, r.david.murray
priority: normal
pull_requests: 29198
severity: normal
status: open
title: email.utils.unquote strips too many slashes
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.10, Python 3.11, Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9

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