email bug?

Sat Aug 23 16:02:48 EDT 2003

Running the following with Python 2.2.2:

from email.Parser import Parser

txt = """Subject: IE is Evil
Content-Type: image/pjpeg; name="Jim&&Jill"

<html>
</html>
"""

msg = email.message_from_string(txt)
print msg.get_params()

I get:
[('image/pjpeg', ''), ('name', '"Jim&amp'), ('&amp', ''), ('Jill"', '')]

What IE apparently gets is:

[('image/pjpeg', ''), ('name', '"Jim&&Jill"')]

Is this a bug (in the email package, I mean - obviously IE is buggy)?

Do I have to write my own custom param parsing routines to handle this?

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