Changeset 147:78f3eda1c1f0 for imapclient/imap_utf7.py

Timestamp:

05/05/10 13:27:39 (2 years ago)

Author:

Menno Smits <menno@…>

Branch:

default

Message:

#21: High ascii bytes in folder names can break folder handling

Don't allow characters in str based folder names that can't be
converted to unicode without knowing the encoding. The idea is that
IMAPClient's user should convert to unicode themselves.

Files:

• imapclient/imap_utf7.py (modified) (1 diff)

imapclient/imap_utf7.py

@@ -24 +24 @@
 
 
+class FolderNameError(ValueError):
+    pass
+
+
 def encode(s):
+    if isinstance(s, str) and sum(n for n in (ord(c) for c in s) if n > 127):
+        raise FolderNameError("%r contains characters not valid in a str folder name. "
+                              "Convert to unicode first?" % s)
+
     r = []
     _in = []