specialsre, escapesre: In SF bug #663369, Matthew Woodcraft points out

that backslashes must be escaped in character sets.

diff --git a/Lib/email/Utils.py b/Lib/email/Utils.py
index 49232f71db7253df93097a0fd8053533a2ac7f72..2b8b94fec49b7cd0ba2b2af4c9d7e27fcb850107 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/email/Utils.py
+++ b/Lib/email/Utils.py
@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ EMPTYSTRING = ''
 UEMPTYSTRING = u''
 CRLF = '\r\n'
 
-specialsre = re.compile(r'[][\()<>@,:;".]')
-escapesre = re.compile(r'[][\()"]')
+specialsre = re.compile(r'[][\\()<>@,:;".]')
+escapesre = re.compile(r'[][\\()"]')
 
 
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