gh-40038: Quote imaplib command arguments when necessary#152703
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Argument quoting was inadvertently disabled when imaplib was ported to Python 3 (bpo-1210 commented out the ``_checkquote()`` call, bpo-9638 then removed it), so since Python 3.0 commands failed for arguments containing protocol-sensitive characters, such as a space in a mailbox name. Quoting is restored and reimplemented per the RFC 3501 grammar, so that arguments that need quoting are escaped and quoted, while flags, sequence sets and list wildcards are left intact. For backward compatibility, an argument already enclosed in double quotes is left unchanged, so code that quotes arguments itself keeps working. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Argument quoting in
imaplibwas inadvertently disabled when the modulewas ported to Python 3 (bpo-1210, bpo-9638), so since Python 3.0 commands
silently fail for arguments containing protocol-sensitive characters,
such as a mailbox name with a space.
Quoting is restored and reimplemented per the :rfc:
3501grammar:arguments that need quoting are escaped and quoted, while flags, sequence
sets and list wildcards are left intact. For backward compatibility, an
argument already enclosed in double quotes is left unchanged, so code that
quotes arguments itself keeps working.
This supersedes #6395 and also resolves #92835, #58148, #90378 and
#148770.
I had almost finished this work about 1.5 years ago, but stopped,
exhausted, after writing roughly 30% of the tests — there are a lot of
them, they are wordy, and they require strict focus. I was finally able
to complete them now with the help of AI.