How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file?

[Robert Kern]

On 2013-04-29 13:59, cl at isbd.net wrote:
> Dave Angel <davea at davea.name> wrote:
>> On 04/29/2013 05:47 AM, cl at isbd.net wrote:
>>
>> A couple of generic comments:  your email program made a mess of the
>> traceback by appending each source line to the location information.
>>
> What's me email program got to do with it?  :-)   I'm using a dedicated
> newsreader (tin) as I posted via the gmane/usenet interface.  The posting
> looks perfectly OK to me when I read it back from usenet.

FWIW, I see the same problem Dave sees. I'm using gmane via Thunderbird.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco