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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/imaplib.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/imaplib.py | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/imaplib.py b/Lib/imaplib.py index 4e8a4bb6fa..a63ba8dbe0 100644 --- a/Lib/imaplib.py +++ b/Lib/imaplib.py @@ -111,7 +111,15 @@ InternalDate = re.compile(br'.*INTERNALDATE "' # Literal is no longer used; kept for backward compatibility. Literal = re.compile(br'.*{(?P<size>\d+)}$', re.ASCII) MapCRLF = re.compile(br'\r\n|\r|\n') -Response_code = re.compile(br'\[(?P<type>[A-Z-]+)( (?P<data>[^\]]*))?\]') +# We no longer exclude the ']' character from the data portion of the response +# code, even though it violates the RFC. Popular IMAP servers such as Gmail +# allow flags with ']', and there are programs (including imaplib!) that can +# produce them. The problem with this is if the 'text' portion of the response +# includes a ']' we'll parse the response wrong (which is the point of the RFC +# restriction). However, that seems less likely to be a problem in practice +# than being unable to correctly parse flags that include ']' chars, which +# was reported as a real-world problem in issue #21815. +Response_code = re.compile(br'\[(?P<type>[A-Z-]+)( (?P<data>.*))?\]') Untagged_response = re.compile(br'\* (?P<type>[A-Z-]+)( (?P<data>.*))?') # Untagged_status is no longer used; kept for backward compatibility Untagged_status = re.compile( |