Is it an error in email.Header?

[Roman Suzi]

It seems that

nEy8k?= =?koi8-r?B??=
     ^
'=' is missing. But is it necessary? MUAs live without it fine...

Sincerely yours, Roman A.Suzi
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On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Roman Suzi wrote:

>
> I was using Python module email.Header to decode headers and encountered
> problems with some of the headers. One example is given below:
>
> Python 2.3.4 (#1, May 27 2004, 15:48:35)
> [GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)] on linux2
>
> >>> import email.Header
> >>> email.Header.decode_header('''=?koi8-r?B?Qm9va3MuUnUgLSDOz9fZyiDTwcrULCDOz9fZxSDTy8nEy8k?= =?koi8-r?B??=''')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "/var/tmp/python2.3-2.3.4-root/usr/lib/python2.3/email/Header.py",
> line 113, in decode_header
> email.Errors.HeaderParseError
>
> While mailers decode Subject just fine... Is it a case of some
> standard deviation?
>
>
> Sincerely yours, Roman A.Suzi
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