New submission from David Holm: The response from NNTP.xover doesn't always match the format described in the documentation. It is supposed to return a (result, list) where the list contains entries of the format (article number, subject, poster, date, id, references, size, lines). However, I have found it to sometimes split the subject into two entries or only one of multiple references being in a list (see example below).
I am attempting to interpret the data using an enum-like structure to match the indices to the values but it fails very often because the date field contains part of the subject or the size field contains a cross reference entry. Example using Python 2.7: >>> import nntplib >>> c = nntplib.NNTP(..) >>> c.group('alt.binaries.linux') ('211 317334 3 317336 alt.binaries.linux', '317334', '3', '317336', 'alt.binaries.linux') >>> resp, lst = c.xover('114179', '114179') >>> print resp 224 data follows >>> print lst [('114179', 'Re: Newsposter - The Linux Binary Posting Script Version 7.2', 'Patriot <americ...@shangri.la.org>', 'Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:36:44 -0600', '<cu-dnfpxgcsr5t_wnz2dnuvz_rbi4...@giganews.com>', ['<5aydnt9obm20bkrwnz2dnuvz_v2dn...@giganews.com>'], '<XGa0n.15891$0u1.11...@newsfe16.iad>', '1443')] In the example above '<XGa0n.15891$0u1.11...@newsfe16.iad>' can be found at index 6 where the size is supposed to be. ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 180987 nosy: dholm priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: nntplib.NNTP.xover does not always return results as documented type: behavior versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17084> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com