Barry A. Warsaw <ba...@python.org> added the comment: On Dec 18, 2010, at 06:31 PM, R. David Murray wrote:
>Barry, I've added you as nosy in case you disagree with this fix. The >essential point is that before, parseaddr would turn 'merwok w...@example.com' >into 'merwok...@example.com', and now it preserves the whitespace. My theory >is that this loses data, that the obsolete syntax allows it, and that >dropping the whitespace denies the application program the chance to apply >its own heuristics. However applications might currently be depending on the >parsed local part being a single token, so I don't plan to backport this. Thanks. I agree with the fix, and not back porting it. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9286> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
