New submission from Michael JasonSmith: The email.utils.formataddr function is used to encode a name-address 2-tuple for use as an email message. If the name contains a non-ASCII character it needs to be encoded. This happens correctly in Python 3.3.2, but incorrectly in Python 2.7.5. Ideally Python 2 would acquire the Python 3 behaviour, as this should make porting easier.
In the following Python 3.3.2 example the name is encoded because of the non-ASCII ☢ character: >>> import email.utils >>> name = 'Me ☢' >>> addr = 'mp...@onlinegroups.net' >>> email.utils.formataddr((name, addr)) '=?utf-8?b?TWUg4pii?= <mp...@onlinegroups.net>' In Python 2.7.5 the same name is incorrectly left unaltered: >>> import email.utils >>> name = u'Me ☢' >>> addr = 'mp...@onlinegroups.net' >>> email.utils.formataddr((name, addr)) u'Me \u2622 <mp...@onlinegroups.net>' However, calling the email.header.Header.encode method works around this issue in Python 2: >>> import email.utils >>> import email.header >>> name = u'Me ☢' >>> addr = 'mp...@onlinegroups.net' >>> h = email.header.Header(name) >>> email.utils.formataddr((h.encode(), addr)) '=?utf-8?b?TWUg4pii?= <mp...@onlinegroups.net>' The example code immediately above also works in Python 3; it is the current work-around in GroupServer. However, ideally instances of Unicode objects passed to email.utils.formataddr will work the same in both Python 2 and Python 3. ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 212648 nosy: Michael.JasonSmith priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: email.utils.formataddr encodes incorrectly type: behavior versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20845> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
