[Python-Dev] CRLF in email.Generator

[Greg Ward]

On 16 November 2001, Gustavo Niemeyer said [regarding the 'email' package]
> I've been looking at the Generator module. It seems to be writing
> the message with:
> 
> print >> self._fp, "text"
> 
> This should probably be replaced by:
> 
> self._fp.write("text"+"\r\n")

This is true if, say, _fp is a socket connected to an SMTP server.

But conventional usage (eg. my ~/Mailbox) dictates that lines end with
"\n" in a Unix filesystem.

Perhaps the Right Answer is:

  self._fp.write("text" + nl)

where the value of nl ("\n", "\r\n", "\r", whatever) depends on the
platform and the target of the message (file, SMTP server, whatever).

        Greg
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