Andi Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: IMO, the best way to resolve this is to use the default continuation whitespace when a Header class is created from a string. But I'm pretty unsure about the default whitespace character. After having a look at a random set of mails in my inbox it seems that in most cases a tab is used for all headers except for the subject (excluding mails sent from Python scripts of course...). I would prefer '\t'; it's allowed and results in a cleaner output - but it won't solve the problem with some email clients which was the starting point for this issue (a short note in the docs should resolve this anyway... ;-)
But I wonder if for some reason setting headers from strings intentionally differs from using the Header class? There are some tests that explicitly test both cases and expect different output. In TestLongHeaders it's test_long_unbreakable_lines_with_continuation() test_long_lines_with_different_header(self) test_long_received_header() [continuation_ws set to tab here] So, what I would do is * remove continuation_ws keyword from Generator._write_headers() * make '\t' the default cont. whitespace for headers (Header class) * update test cases and the documentation accordingly Do you think that this is the right way to go? Or would it break too much code outside stdlib if the default ws changes? _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1974> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
