From 88b0884787f06667f59ebaab5413f3bedcdd631c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Andrew M. Kuchling" Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 17:30:26 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Change rfc822_escape() to ensure there's a consistent amount of whitespace after each newline, instead of just blindly inserting a space at the start of each line. (Improvement suggested by Thomas Wouters) --- Lib/distutils/util.py | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Lib/distutils/util.py b/Lib/distutils/util.py index 010db9a3b0d..01abd346d5b 100644 --- a/Lib/distutils/util.py +++ b/Lib/distutils/util.py @@ -446,10 +446,11 @@ def byte_compile (py_files, def rfc822_escape (header): """Return a version of the string escaped for inclusion in an - RFC-822 header, by adding a space after each newline. + RFC-822 header, by ensuring there are 8 spaces space after each newline. """ - header = string.rstrip(header) - header = string.replace(header, '\n', '\n ') + lines = string.split(header, '\n') + lines = map(string.strip, lines) + header = string.join(lines, '\n' + 8*' ') return header