[New-bugs-announce] [issue1556] Failure when calling __str__ for MIMEBase(message, rfc822) objects

[Hendrik Spiegel]

New submission from Hendrik Spiegel:

When creating a MIMEBase object with message/rfc822 mimetype invoking
the objects __str__ method results in an exception. 
Even if this behaviour should be intended the error message "TypeError:
Expected list, got <type 'str'>" is not helpful. 
To reproduce the problem run the attached script after creating the file
 'test.eml' in the script's directory.


    mimetype = mimetypes.guess_type(filename)[0]
    maintype, subtype = mimetype.split('/')
    attachment = MIMEBase(maintype, subtype)
    attachment.set_payload(file(filename).read( ))
    print attachment

#python MimebaseError.py                                               
                                                                       
             [1]
message/rfc822
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "MimebaseError.py", line 19, in <module>
    main()
  File "MimebaseError.py", line 16, in main
    print attachment
  File "email/message.py", line 116, in __str__
  File "email/message.py", line 131, in as_string
  File "email/generator.py", line 84, in flatten
  File "email/generator.py", line 109, in _write
  File "email/generator.py", line 135, in _dispatch
  File "email/generator.py", line 266, in _handle_message
  File "email/message.py", line 185, in get_payload
TypeError: Expected list, got <type 'str'>

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components: Library (Lib)
files: MimebaseError.py
messages: 58216
nosy: hsp
severity: normal
status: open
title: Failure when calling __str__ for MIMEBase(message, rfc822) objects
type: crash
versions: Python 2.4, Python 2.5
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file8879/MimebaseError.py

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