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author | Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> | 2001-03-23 17:30:26 +0000 |
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committer | Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> | 2001-03-23 17:30:26 +0000 |
commit | 87ce7581e48a3d18da7de2ccf1a32942e56453fd (patch) | |
tree | f3eee84edd934369c656a67d7973c513519e285b /Lib/distutils/util.py | |
parent | 3ea82b16bf8a6260c7f768f4a68627eb77305e91 (diff) | |
download | cpython-87ce7581e48a3d18da7de2ccf1a32942e56453fd.tar.gz |
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)
Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/distutils/util.py')
-rw-r--r-- | Lib/distutils/util.py | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/util.py b/Lib/distutils/util.py index 010db9a3b0..01abd346d5 100644 --- a/Lib/distutils/util.py +++ b/Lib/distutils/util.py @@ -446,10 +446,11 @@ byte_compile(files, optimize=%s, force=%s, 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 |