imaplib.IMAP4: Bug in implementation

[Oliver Kurz]

Hello,

I just discovered a "bug" in the imaplib.

I want to send the following command to the imap-server and I was suprisedto get a error. :-)

The command:

UID STORE 2349672398 +FLAGS (\SEEN)

IMAP4 makes from this command:

UID STORE 2323423233 "+FLAGS(\SE EN)"

This is not valid (http://community.roxen.com/developer.../rfc3501..html)

So ... is there a fix for this problem? Or have someone a workaround für this problem?

I call the uid like this

uid("STORE",uid ,"+FLAGS(\SEEN) ")

--
Oliver Kurz

[Max M]

Re: imaplib.IMAP4: Bug in implementation

Oliver Kurz wrote:
[color=blue]
> I call the uid like this
>
> uid("STORE",uid ,"+FLAGS(\SEEN) ")[/color]


Are you shure you don't mean::

uid("STORE",uid ,"+FLAGS(\\SEEN )")

You are trying to create a non-existent special character, escaping the
s in your example.

I am not quite shure how Python reacts to that.


regards Max M

[Donn Cave]

Re: imaplib.IMAP4: Bug in implementation

In article <mailman.77.107 9525205.742.pyt hon-list@python.org >,
"Oliver Kurz" <olku@web.de> wrote:
[color=blue]
> I call the uid like this
>
> uid("STORE",uid ,"+FLAGS(\SEEN) ")[/color]

Have you tried uid("STORE", uid, "+FLAGS", "(\SEEN)")?

Donn Cave, donn@u.washingt on.edu

[Peter Hansen]

Python behaviour with unrecognized string escapes (was Re: imaplib.IMAP4:B ug in implementation)

Max M wrote:[color=blue]
> Oliver Kurz wrote:
>[color=green]
> > I call the uid like this
> >
> > uid("STORE",uid ,"+FLAGS(\SEEN) ")[/color]
>
>
> Are you shure you don't mean::
>
> uid("STORE",uid ,"+FLAGS(\\SEEN )")
>
> You are trying to create a non-existent special character, escaping the
> s in your example.
>
> I am not quite shure how Python reacts to that.[/color]

Python 2.3.3 (#51, Dec 18 2003, 20:22:39) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)][color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> '\s'[/color][/color][/color]
'\\s'[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> '\\s'[/color][/color][/color]
'\\s'

Seems that it if it doesn't recognize the escape, the effect is the same
as if you had escaped the escape character in the first place...

-Peter