[Mailman-Developers] Strange behaviour

[Mikhail Sobolev]

Barry,

I get the correct information.  I even tried to remove myself from the
mailing list and subscribe back (as the original message suggested it
was the list hosted on my computer), however I could not get that
errornous message.  I'll investigate better and return with better
understanding what is wrong and when it happens.

--
Misha

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:55:45PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 17:47, Mikhail Sobolev wrote:
> 
> > I am sorry, but I do not really see this as an expected behaviour.  As I
> > said the newlines are replaced with nothing.
> > 
> > I have the text:
> > 
> > Blah blah blah
> > oops oops oops
> > 
> > And after the reformatting I expect:
> > 
> > Blah blah blah oops oops oops
> > 
> > while I get
> > 
> > Blah blah blahoops oops oops
> 
> Yes, the fact that the newline is getting eaten is not expected
> behavior.  Here's a sample session; you can try to reproduce this with
> some real text by cd'ing into /usr/local/mailman and starting python
> like so:
> 
> % cd /usr/local/mailman
> % python
> Python 2.3.2 (#1, Oct  3 2003, 08:18:26) 
> [GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> from Mailman.Utils import wrap
> >>> wrap("""\
> ... blah blah blah
> ... oops oops oops
> ... """)
> 'blah blah blah oops oops oops\n'
> 
> What do you get?
> -Barry
> 
> 
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