Senthil Kumaran <orsent...@gmail.com> added the comment: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:56:01AM +0000, R. David Murray wrote: > > I seem to have been missing some context here.
I was referring to Walter's comment on default being an int, like HTTPResponse.getheader('Fake-Content-Length',default=42). It was surprising to me, but the he provided a sample snippet and pointed out that default value can be None. So, yes, just checking of string value might not give the correct results in all circumstances (esp default=None case which is strong). >In the 2.x code getheader returns only the value of the first header >with the given name, in the 3.x code it returns the comma separated >concatenation of the values of all headers with that name, and breaks >the handling of default. > > Any idea which handling of header values is actually the correct > behavior vis-a-vis the http protocol? I believe, 2.x version is proper. I was surprised at get_all() method introduced too, instead of getheader (if its present in Message) Headers is a simply a dict and getheader is similar to dict.get(key, default). I shall look up the HTTP RFC and confirm what should be done if multiple values exists for same header. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8572> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com