Re: imaplib.IMAP4: Bug in implementation

From: Oliver Kurz (olku_at_web.de)
Date: 03/17/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 15:24:11 +0100
To: python-list@python.org

> > I call the uid like this
> >
> > uid("STORE",uid,"+FLAGS(\SEEN)")
>
>
> Are you shure you don't mean::
>
> uid("STORE",uid,"+FLAGS(\\SEEN)")
>
> You are trying to create a non-existent special character, escaping the
> s in your example.
>
> I am not quite shure how Python reacts to that.

Even if I use two \ it doesn't work, cause the IMAP-server doesn't like the quoting.

BTW! Python makes two \ from this one. But as I said the problem is the quoting of the arguments.

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