nntplib.NNTPTemporaryError: 441 Article has no body -- just headers

[Jon Bendtsen]

Jon Bendtsen wrote:
> Jon Bendtsen wrote:
>> Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>>> On Wed, 27 May 2009 14:25:58 +0200, Jon Bendtsen <noone at example.com>
>>> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
>>>
>>>> 'From: root at laerdal.dk\nSubject: testing\nNewsgroups: test\nBody:
>>>> \n\n\nfoobar\n\n\n.\n\n\n'
>>>>
>>> 	I believe NNTP, like SMTP, requires \r\n line termination.
>> I will try it, but why does it then work when it posts the file? The
>> file is a std. unix file, so it should also only have \n line
>> termination.
> 
> I have now tried adding \r infront of all \n. That didnt help.
> 
> I tried making a tempfile.TemporaryFile(dir='/tmp') which did not
> work either. Message is still:
> 
> nntplib.NNTPTemporaryError: 441 Article has no body -- just headers

with the help of #python on Freenode i found the problem. I didnt
seek back to 0. With seeking stringio works, and then i will use that.