Fixed #1923: make sure we don't strip meaningful whitespace in PKG-INFO Description field
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/tests/test_dist.py b/Lib/distutils/tests/test_dist.py
index 573d0b9..8b141ca 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/tests/test_dist.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/tests/test_dist.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
import sys
import unittest
import warnings
+import textwrap
from distutils.dist import Distribution, fix_help_options
from distutils.cmd import Command
@@ -381,6 +382,21 @@
if line.strip() != '']
self.assertTrue(len(output) > 0)
+ def test_long_description(self):
+ long_desc = textwrap.dedent("""\
+ example::
+ We start here
+ and continue here
+ and end here.""")
+ attrs = {"name": "package",
+ "version": "1.0",
+ "long_description": long_desc}
+
+ dist = distutils.dist.Distribution(attrs)
+ meta = self.format_metadata(dist)
+ meta = meta.replace('\n' + 8 * ' ', '\n')
+ self.assertTrue(long_desc in meta)
+
def test_suite():
suite = unittest.TestSuite()
suite.addTest(unittest.makeSuite(DistributionTestCase))
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/util.py b/Lib/distutils/util.py
index 6bff44f..b8e4952 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/util.py
@@ -558,8 +558,8 @@
"""Return a version of the string escaped for inclusion in an
RFC-822 header, by ensuring there are 8 spaces space after each newline.
"""
- lines = [x.strip() for x in header.split('\n')]
- sep = '\n' + 8*' '
+ lines = header.split('\n')
+ sep = '\n' + 8 * ' '
return sep.join(lines)
_RE_VERSION = re.compile('(\d+\.\d+(\.\d+)*)')
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 400431d..abcd23c 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -507,6 +507,9 @@
Library
-------
+- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is
+ generated in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
+
- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
msvc9compiler.