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r76684 | tarek.ziade | 2009-12-06 10:22:40 +0100 (Sun, 06 Dec 2009) | 1 line
Fixed #1923: make sure we don't strip meaningful whitespace in PKG-INFO Description field
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diff --git a/Lib/distutils/tests/test_dist.py b/Lib/distutils/tests/test_dist.py
index bf59c41..af40186 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/tests/test_dist.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/tests/test_dist.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
import sys
import unittest
import warnings
+import textwrap
from test.test_support import TESTFN
@@ -283,6 +284,21 @@
os.environ[key] = value
os.remove(user_filename)
+ 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 ee5829b..7bc52f1 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/util.py
@@ -559,6 +559,5 @@
RFC-822 header, by ensuring there are 8 spaces space after each newline.
"""
lines = string.split(header, '\n')
- lines = map(string.strip, lines)
header = string.join(lines, '\n' + 8*' ')
return header
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 0d5521d..0b16414 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@
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.