Unpaking Tuple

[Jussi Piitulainen]

Dave Angel writes:

> On 10/09/2012 02:07 AM, Bob Martin wrote:
> > in 682592 20121008 232126 "Prasad, Ramit" wrote:
[snip mess]
> > How does one unpack this post?  ;-)
> 
> Since that's not the way it arrived here, i have to ask, how do you
> get these posts?  Are you subscribed to individual messages by email
> via python.org?  or are you using google-groups or some other
> indirection?
> 
> In any reasonable mail program, you can see the source of a message.
> Most of the troubles i've seen here have been caused by people
> trying to send html mail to a text-based mailing list.  But in the
> case you quote, the original message came here as text/plain, and
> well formatted.

I see a carriage return rendered as ^M at the end of every line from
Prasad's messages. Other than that, they are well-formatted plain text
for me, too.

I guess Prasad's system sends \r\n instead of \n\r (the DOS line-end)
and \r\n gets interpreted as a stray \r followed by end-of-line.