Is it an error in email.Header?

[Roman Suzi]

I was using Python module email.Header to decode headers and encountered
problems with some of the headers. One example is given below:

Python 2.3.4 (#1, May 27 2004, 15:48:35)
[GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)] on linux2

import email.Header
email.Header.decode_header('''=?koi8-r?B?Qm9va3MuUnUgLSDOz9fZyiDTwcrULCDOz9fZxSDTy8nEy8 k?= =?koi8-r?B??=''')

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "/var/tmp/python2.3-2.3.4-root/usr/lib/python2.3/email/Header.py",
line 113, in decode_header
email.Errors.HeaderParseError

While mailers decode Subject just fine... Is it a case of some
standard deviation?
Sincerely yours, Roman A.Suzi
--
- Petrozavodsk - Karelia - Russia - mailto:rn*@onego.ru -

[Michel Claveau - abstraction méta-galactique non t]

Hi !
decode_header not work for all cases of e-mails. Use try, and, if except,
try other decode fonction (utf-8, cp1252, etc.)
Then an header can to have more differents codages. Try to decompose the
item, and to decode each element. The elements are often separate with =?
and ?=

*sorry for my bad english*

Michel Claveau