[New-bugs-announce] [issue10282] IMPLEMENTATION token differently delt with in NNTP capability

[Julien ÉLIE]

New submission from Julien ÉLIE <julien at trigofacile.com>:

I believe the case of "IMPLEMENTATION" should be treated differently.
It is not helpful at all to split the argument.  It is meant to be a
text string and ['INN', '2.6.0', '(20101101', 'prelease)'] does not
have much meaning...

Suggestion:

            if line.startswith("IMPLEMENTATION"):
                 name, *tokens = line.split(None, 1)
            else:
                 name, *tokens = line.split()

or something else, though I do not believe another keyword will begin with "IMPLEMENTATION"...

Besides, shouldn't it be checked that the line is not empty, before splitting it?

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components: Extension Modules
messages: 120159
nosy: jelie
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: IMPLEMENTATION token differently delt with in NNTP capability
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.2

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