[ python-Bugs-1752723 ] email.message_from_string: initial line gets discarded

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Bugs item #1752723, was opened at 2007-07-12 10:52
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.5
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: David Webster (dwebster99)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: email.message_from_string: initial line gets discarded

Initial Comment:
If the first line of the string passed to email.message_from_string starts with whitespace, the line gets discarded. I believe the problem is in the feed parser, but I don't have a test case to prove that. 

The attached file is a short program to illustrate the problem. When I run it I get the output shown below. The line count should be unchanged in both cases. 

leading whitespace :
    Body changed: lines in: 3  lines out: 2
left justified :
    Line count was preserved.

Platform:
  Python 2.5.1
  Windows 2000 SP4



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