From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 18:36:28 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Allow '@' character as end of line padding in uuencode format.
X-Git-Tag: v1.5a3~307
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1243ae7f0767b5636ad1d071d15778f134f7c65f;p=python

Allow '@' character as end of line padding in uuencode format.
Not sure why this is generated, but this fixes a problem with a
particular file that was received with the following final line:

F-WE<-*A5]AY]%7>8'&!!(_Y<F*55_"*%46"<OFG=>_5(F/\'``!@
---

diff --git a/Modules/binascii.c b/Modules/binascii.c
index 4776170755..7e03799126 100644
--- a/Modules/binascii.c
+++ b/Modules/binascii.c
@@ -265,7 +265,9 @@ binascii_a2b_uu(self, args)
 	*/
 	while( ascii_len-- > 0 ) {
 		this_ch = *ascii_data++;
-		if ( this_ch != ' ' && this_ch != '\n' && this_ch != '\r' ) {
+		/* Extra '@' may be written as padding in some cases */
+		if ( this_ch != ' ' && this_ch != '@' &&
+		     this_ch != '\n' && this_ch != '\r' ) {
 			PyErr_SetString(Error, "Trailing garbage");
 			Py_DECREF(rv);
 			return NULL;