#1162477: accept '.' in addition to ':' when parsing time in date header.
Some non-compliant MUAs use '.'s, so by the Postel Principle we should
accept them. Patch by Thomas Herve.
diff --git a/Lib/email/_parseaddr.py b/Lib/email/_parseaddr.py
index 41694f9..4b2f5c6 100644
--- a/Lib/email/_parseaddr.py
+++ b/Lib/email/_parseaddr.py
@@ -99,6 +99,14 @@
tss = '0'
elif len(tm) == 3:
[thh, tmm, tss] = tm
+ elif len(tm) == 1 and '.' in tm[0]:
+ # Some non-compliant MUAs use '.' to separate time elements.
+ tm = tm[0].split('.')
+ if len(tm) == 2:
+ [thh, tmm] = tm
+ tss = 0
+ elif len(tm) == 3:
+ [thh, tmm, tss] = tm
else:
return None
try: