Email Header Folding Converts Non-CRLF Newlines to CRLFs
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Description
| BPO | 46462 |
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GitHub fields:
assignee = None
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created_at = <Date 2022-01-21.18:21:38.334>
labels = ['type-bug', 'library', '3.11']
title = 'Email Header Folding Converts Non-CRLF Newlines to CRLFs'
updated_at = <Date 2022-01-21.18:21:38.334>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/jwalterclark'
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components = ['Library (Lib)']
creation = <Date 2022-01-21.18:21:38.334>
creator = 'jwalterclark'
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issue_num = 46462
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priority = 'normal'
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status = 'open'
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type = 'behavior'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue46462'
versions = ['Python 3.11']
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Research direction
The issue identifies Python's library email header folding behavior but names no implementation file or test. Start by locating the header-folding code and existing tests for newline handling, reproduce the conversion of non-CRLF newlines, and confirm that the relevant newline forms remain unchanged as appropriate.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100