On 1/7/23 7:11 AM, Bob Kline wrote:
As a very minor side note, just so you know, it looks like there's a bug in the mailing list software. I went back to the original of my previous post, and the ">" character which appears at the beginning of the paragraph beginning "From what I can tell ..." was not in the message that I sent, but was added by the mailing list, making it look as if that paragraph might have been part of the quoted message to which I was replying, instead of what it actually was (part of my own reply).
Ah, you youngsters who don't remember the glory days. That's not a bug, it's a feature.
In the early days, mail messages were stored in a standard format called "mbox". This was a simple, plain text format that just had the text of every message. The separator between messages was a line that read "From <t...@probo.com> Sat Jan 07 11:14:59 2023". So, any line in a message that started with the word "From" needed to be escaped to prevent it from being read as a separator. The traditional escapement was to change it to "> From".
-- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
