MIMEMultipart() and CRLF vs RFC 2046

[alf]

Hi,

according to rfc2046, line breaks in MIME are CRLF. However python just
uses LF like in the following example:

from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText

msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['Subject'] = 'Our family reunion'
msg['From'] = 'a@a.b'
msg['To'] = 'c@x.y'
msg.epilogue = ''

msg.attach(MIMEText('aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa'))

print `msg.as_string()`

gives:
'Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="===============1018679223=="\nMIME-Version: 1.0\nSubject: Our
family reunion\nFrom: a@a.b\nTo:
c@x.y\n\n--===============1018679223==\nContent-Type: text/plain;
charset="us-ascii"\nMIME-Version: 1.0\nContent-Transfer-Encoding:
7bit\n\naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa\n--===============1018679223==--\n'

Any insight why does it not stick to standard. I also checked parsing
and it seems to accept both CRLF and LF.

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Thx, alfz1

[Gabriel Genellina]

At Thursday 5/10/2006 18:52, alf wrote:

>according to rfc2046, line breaks in MIME are CRLF. However python just
>uses LF like in the following example:

The comments inside generator.py say CRLF everywhere, but the code
simply uses print >>f
You should file a bug report at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5470

Gabriel Genellina
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[alf]

Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> At Thursday 5/10/2006 18:52, alf wrote:
>
>> according to rfc2046, line breaks in MIME are CRLF. However python just
>> uses LF like in the following example:
>
>
> The comments inside generator.py say CRLF everywhere, but the code
> simply uses print >>f

they also define NL as '\n\ only.

> You should file a bug report at
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5470

done

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alfz1