Decoding 'funky' e-mail subjects

[Skip Montanaro]

    >> Have you tried decode_header from email.Header in the python
    >> email-package?

    Jonas> Thanks, that works. The problem is that I need to make it
    Jonas> compatible with Python 1.5.2. 

Why not just include email.Header.decode_header() in your app?  Something
like:

    try:
        from email.Header import decode_header
    except ImportError:
        # Python 1.5.2 compatibility...
        def decode_header(...):
            ...

If that proves to be intractible, define yours when an ImportError is
raised.  In either case, you get the best solution when you can and only
fall back to something possibly suboptimal when necessary.

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