New submission from Gregory Nofi <crackityjones200...@yahoo.com>:
mailcap.getcaps() has a call to mailcap.listmailcapfiles(), which returns a
list of all mailcap files found on the system.
listmailcapfiles() first looks for the MAILCAPS environment variable. If it
exists, it converts the string value into a list by splitting it on ":". This
will not work on platforms that use other path separators, like Windows (";").
Attached are patches that use os.pathsep instead.
For more information about the MAILCAPS variable, see Appendix A in RFC 1524
(http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1524.html).
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assignee: ronaldoussoren
components: Library (Lib), Macintosh, Windows
files: mailcap_trunk.py
messages: 117163
nosy: gnofi, ronaldoussoren
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: mailcap module may will not work on non-POSIX platforms if MAILCAPS env
variable is set
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.1
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18969/mailcap_trunk.py
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