Bugfix to ESR's code reported by himself: should use hasattr() to test

for presence unread, not getattr()!

diff --git a/Lib/rfc822.py b/Lib/rfc822.py
index 87d7d394b9d09b9e906db4e2de8237f00bad235e..fc244c5b88c7ce12620a6fada7ee5bada240449f 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/rfc822.py
+++ b/Lib/rfc822.py
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ class Message:
                 else:
                     self.status = 'Non-header line where header expected'
                 # Try to undo the read.
-                if getattr(self.fp, 'unread'):
+                if hasattr(self.fp, 'unread'):
                     self.fp.unread(line)
                 elif self.seekable:
                     self.fp.seek(-len(line), 1)