Hi,
I am currently fixing a bug in Distutils: http://bugs.python.org/issue1923
this bugs makes a Description field like:
"""
Text::
a literal python block::
>>> import this
"""
Transformed into :
"""
Text::
a literal python block::
>>> import this
"""
Which is fine for RFC822 compliancy but sucks for reST if someone
wants to parse it back.
There's another problem: empty lines.
For instance:
"""
Description: Text::
a literal python block::
>>> import this
"""
Will not be parseable with rfc822 because the first empty line ends the header.
IOW we need to encode that multi-line field differently.
I want to take the chance that we are changing PEP 345, to introduce a
smarter marker
in 1.2, that will add a character (:) after the 8 spaces to avoid
losing empty lines:
"""
Description: Text::
:
:a literal python block::
:
: >>> import this
"""
So we are able to unparse it.
Thoughts ?
Regards
Tarek
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