From: Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 03:03:41 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Patch #407434: add rfc822_escape utility function
X-Git-Tag: v2.1b2~91
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=df66df0a286c5d09022e7efe839759797318506c;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Patch #407434: add rfc822_escape utility function
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diff --git a/Lib/distutils/util.py b/Lib/distutils/util.py
index e59615042252..010db9a3b0dd 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/util.py
@@ -443,3 +443,13 @@ byte_compile(files, optimize=%s, force=%s,
                               (file, cfile_base)
 
 # byte_compile ()
+
+def rfc822_escape (header):
+    """Return a version of the string escaped for inclusion in an
+    RFC-822 header, by adding a space after each newline.
+    """
+    header = string.rstrip(header)
+    header = string.replace(header, '\n', '\n ')
+    return header
+
+