New submission from James:
Have any valid .netrc file. For testing purposes you can use this:
machine abc.xyz login myusername password mypassword
The documentation for netrc.__repr__() states that it "dumps the class data as
a string in the format of a netrc file". However, when you try to actually do
this, you'll encounter a nasty bug. This can be seen by running the follow
commands:
auth = netrc.netrc(os.path.expanduser(r"~\.netrc"))
print(auth.__repr__())
The expected output is:
machine abc.xyz
login myusername
password mypassword
The actual output is:
machine abc.xyz
login 'myusername'
password 'mypassword'
If you write this back out to the .netrc file, authentication will fail since
incorrect username/password (with ' character at beginning at end) will be
passed.
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 297296
nosy: Bezier89
priority: normal
pull_requests: 2550
severity: normal
status: open
title: netrc.__repr__() is broken for writing to file
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.6
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