Closes #15925: fix regression in parsedate() and parsedate_tz() that should return None if unable to parse the argument.

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 22 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/email/_parseaddr.py b/Lib/email/_parseaddr.py
index 3528d02..cdfa372 100644
--- a/Lib/email/_parseaddr.py
+++ b/Lib/email/_parseaddr.py
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ def parsedate_tz(data):
     Accounts for military timezones.
     """
     res = _parsedate_tz(data)
+    if not res:
+        return
     if res[9] is None:
         res[9] = 0
     return tuple(res)
@@ -62,6 +64,8 @@ def _parsedate_tz(data):
     source timezone really was UTC.
 
     """
+    if not data:
+        return
     data = data.split()
     # The FWS after the comma after the day-of-week is optional, so search and
     # adjust for this.
diff --git a/Lib/email/utils.py b/Lib/email/utils.py
index 73bc348..6b6d7f4 100644
--- a/Lib/email/utils.py
+++ b/Lib/email/utils.py
@@ -37,10 +37,7 @@ from email._parseaddr import quote
 from email._parseaddr import AddressList as _AddressList
 from email._parseaddr import mktime_tz
 
-# We need wormarounds for bugs in these methods in older Pythons (see below)
-from email._parseaddr import parsedate as _parsedate
-from email._parseaddr import parsedate_tz as _parsedate_tz
-from email._parseaddr import _parsedate_tz as __parsedate_tz
+from email._parseaddr import parsedate, parsedate_tz, _parsedate_tz
 
 from quopri import decodestring as _qdecode
 
@@ -222,25 +219,8 @@ def make_msgid(idstring=None, domain=None):
     return msgid
 
 
-
-# These functions are in the standalone mimelib version only because they've
-# subsequently been fixed in the latest Python versions.  We use this to worm
-# around broken older Pythons.
-def parsedate(data):
-    if not data:
-        return None
-    return _parsedate(data)
-
-
-def parsedate_tz(data):
-    if not data:
-        return None
-    return _parsedate_tz(data)
-
 def parsedate_to_datetime(data):
-    if not data:
-        return None
-    *dtuple, tz = __parsedate_tz(data)
+    *dtuple, tz = _parsedate_tz(data)
     if tz is None:
         return datetime.datetime(*dtuple[:6])
     return datetime.datetime(*dtuple[:6],