From 88b0884787f06667f59ebaab5413f3bedcdd631c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Andrew M. Kuchling" <amk@amk.ca>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 17:30:26 +0000
Subject: Change rfc822_escape() to ensure there's a consistent amount of
 whitespace    after each newline, instead of just blindly inserting a space
 at    the start of each line.  (Improvement suggested by Thomas Wouters)

---
 Lib/distutils/util.py | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/util.py b/Lib/distutils/util.py
index 010db9a..01abd34 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/util.py
@@ -446,10 +446,11 @@ byte_compile(files, optimize=%s, force=%s,
 
 def rfc822_escape (header):
     """Return a version of the string escaped for inclusion in an
-    RFC-822 header, by adding a space after each newline.
+    RFC-822 header, by ensuring there are 8 spaces space after each newline.
     """
-    header = string.rstrip(header)
-    header = string.replace(header, '\n', '\n ')
+    lines = string.split(header, '\n')
+    lines = map(string.strip, lines)
+    header = string.join(lines, '\n' + 8*' ')
     return header
 
 
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