Port forward from 2.4 branch:
Patch #1464708 from William McVey: fixed handling of nested comments in mail
addresses. E.g.
"Foo ((Foo Bar)) <foo@example.com>"
Fixes for both rfc822.py and email package. This patch needs to be back
ported to Python 2.3 for email 2.5.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_rfc822.py b/Lib/test/test_rfc822.py
index 0d9f28a..6d22825 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_rfc822.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_rfc822.py
@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@
print 'extra parsed address:', repr(n), repr(a)
continue
i = i + 1
+ self.assertEqual(mn, n,
+ "Un-expected name: %s != %s" % (`mn`, `n`))
+ self.assertEqual(ma, a,
+ "Un-expected address: %s != %s" % (`ma`, `a`))
if mn == n and ma == a:
pass
else:
@@ -129,6 +133,12 @@
'To: person@dom.ain (User J. Person)\n\n',
[('User J. Person', 'person@dom.ain')])
+ def test_doublecomment(self):
+ # The RFC allows comments within comments in an email addr
+ self.check(
+ 'To: person@dom.ain ((User J. Person)), John Doe <foo@bar.com>\n\n',
+ [('User J. Person', 'person@dom.ain'), ('John Doe', 'foo@bar.com')])
+
def test_twisted(self):
# This one is just twisted. I don't know what the proper
# result should be, but it shouldn't be to infloop, which is