Michael P. Soulier wrote: >On 09/02/05 Mark Sapiro did say: > >> The 313th article in the mbox file (starting with 0) has invalid base64 >> encoding. > >Well, I couldn't find anything wrong with the article in question.
Based on the original error > File "//usr/lib/python2.2/base64.py", line 44, in decodestring > return binascii.a2b_base64(s) >binascii.Error: Incorrect padding I think the problem is that the base64 encoded text in the message didn't end with the proper number of "=" characters or wasn't a multiple of 4 characters long. >So, I >patched the code in Util.py to catch the exception and return the null string. >Seems to have permitted the archives to be imported ok, while those messages >affected would presumably be blank. > >Simply crashing like this is bad behaviour, IMHO. I agree. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org