[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: #665194: support roundtripping RFC2822 date stamps in the email.utils module

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:12:42 -0400
Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> On 7/20/2011 11:41 AM, r.david.murray wrote:
> 
> > diff --git a/Lib/email/utils.py b/Lib/email/utils.py
> 
> >   # We need wormarounds for bugs in these methods in older Pythons (see below)
> 
> Is 'wormaround' (variation of workaround) an intentional play on the 
> fact that some worms prey on other 'bugs' ;-? (rather then eating plant 
> matter?)

Or perhaps worms dig their way carefully around known bugs?