[issue23833] email.header.Header folding modifies headers that include semi-colons

Change by Irit Katriel : -- resolution: -> out of date stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue23833] email.header.Header folding modifies headers that include semi-colons

Irit Katriel added the comment: David, if this was fixed in Python 3 as you say then this issue can be closed now. -- nosy: +iritkatriel ___ Python tracker ___

[issue23833] email.header.Header folding modifies headers that include semi-colons

R. David Murray added the comment: The header folding algorithm is...not all that smart. There's a better one in the new policies in email in python3, which does not have this problem (it does have a few others, but the plan is to treat them as bugs and fix them :) IMO this isn't worth

[issue23833] email.header.Header folding modifies headers that include semi-colons

New submission from Dan: When adding or replacing a header with email.header.Header, folding of long lines will add a space after any semi-colon encountered in the string. Setting maxlinelen to something longer than the string (no folding required), no spaces are added after semi-colons.