[Spambayes] defaults vs. chi-square

[Guido van Rossum]

>     TP> So, Barry, what can we do about this?  Filling the database
>     TP> with "skip" tokens from raw base64 is a Bad Idea, and I assume
>     TP> the email pkg doesn't know how to, e.g., "decode base64 up
>     TP> until it can't anymore, and then grab the rest as plain text".
>     TP> Heh -- just writing that made me want to puke.  We have to do
>     TP> something better with this, though.
> 
> Upgrade to MM2.1 :)
> 
> Seriously, when the email package has to decode a base64 payload, it
> just hands the whole string off to base64.decodestring().  Given that
> that function isn't very forgiving, I'm not sure what to do.  Sucks.

Split it up in lines first, and collect lines that match a simple
regexp to recognize base64.  Then feed the collected stuff to
base64.decodestring().  If there's non-white excess, deal with that
separately.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)