[issue8769] Straightforward usage of email package fails to round-trip

R. David Murray added the comment: This is fixed in 3.2/3.3 by the fix for issue 11492. The suggested fix for 2.7 is more radical than I'm comfortable with for a point release. I'm open to argument on that, but in the meantime I'm closing the issue with 11492 as the superseder. -- r

[issue8769] Straightforward usage of email package fails to round-trip

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[issue8769] Straightforward usage of email package fails to round-trip

A.M. Kuchling added the comment: Minor fix to the patch: the import of Header could actually be removed, since the class is no longer referenced at all with this change. -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue8769] Straightforward usage of email package fails to round-trip

A.M. Kuchling added the comment: The attached patch is a possible fix; it uses the decode_header() and make_header() functions to figure out the encoding properly; it fixes my example, at least. But does it increase the odds of crashing on messages with malformed headers? Should it go into

[issue8769] Straightforward usage of email package fails to round-trip

New submission from A.M. Kuchling : The attached test program shows how parsing an e-mail message with the email package, then converting the resulting message to a string, fails to round-trip properly. Instead it breaks the encoding of the subject line. The root of the problem: the subject i