David Jean Louis added the comment:
Hmm, I missed your previous message, indeed, unescaping is not handled by this
patch, sorry about that. Here's how it is handled in polib:
https://bitbucket.org/izi/polib/src/dbafdc621bf4/polib.py#c
David Jean Louis added the comment:
I'm adding an updated patch that also handles unescaped double quote at the
beginning of the string.
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versions: +Python 2.6, Python 3.1, Python 3.4
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file23567/msgfmt.py.diff.update1
New submission from David Jean Louis :
Hi,
I'm the author of the polib python module, incidentally (after a bug report in
polib:
https://bitbucket.org/izi/polib/issue/27/polib-doesnt-check-unescaped-quote)
I've found that the eval() in Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py allows arbitrary code
