R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> added the comment:

Your patch looks good, thank you.

I just realized that Barry isn't nosy on this issue.  I've checked, and the 
code in question dates back to email version 1.0...code of that long standing 
that exists specifically to implement the behavior we propose to change makes 
me wonder what we will break if we fix it.  Yet the current behavior seems 
clearly contrary to the RFCs to me.

Barry?  Any memory of why _bdecode exists and what will break if we fix it?

In any case I suspect that backporting this fix might be a bad idea, since 
existing code may be compensating for the current behavior and break if the 
behavior is fixed.

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nosy: +barry
versions:  -Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 3.1

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