[New-bugs-announce] [issue17017] email.utils.getaddresses fails for certain addresses

[Andreas Dewes]

New submission from Andreas Dewes:

email.utils.getaddresses doesn't seem to work if the quoted part of address contains "\r" or "\n" characters. An example:

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from email.utils import getaddresses
address = '"Data Mining, Statistics, Big Data, and Data Visualization Group\r\n Members" <group-digests at linkedin.com>'
getaddresses([address])
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In Python 2.7.3, this returns:

[('', u'Data Mining, Statistics, Big Data, and Data Visualization Group')]

Not sure if this is a real bug or if the address is malformed, in any case I encountered this issue when parsing e-mails fetched from GMail.

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components: email
messages: 180440
nosy: barry, japh44, r.david.murray
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: email.utils.getaddresses fails for certain addresses
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7

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