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  r87415 | r.david.murray | 2010-12-21 13:07:59 -0500 (Tue, 21 Dec 2010) | 4 lines

  Fix the change made for issue 1243654.

  Surprisingly, it turns out there was no test that exercised this code path.
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Lib/email/generator.py

@@ -186,7 +186,8 @@ class Generator:
             # Create a boundary that doesn't appear in any of the
             # message texts.
             alltext = NL.join(msgtexts)
-            msg.set_boundary(self._make_boundary(alltext))
+            boundary = _make_boundary(alltext)
+            msg.set_boundary(boundary)
         # If there's a preamble, write it out, with a trailing CRLF
         if msg.preamble is not None:
             print(msg.preamble, file=self._fp)

Lib/email/test/test_email.py

@@ -178,6 +178,17 @@ class TestMessageAPI(TestEmailBase):
         self.assertRaises(errors.HeaderParseError,
                           msg.set_boundary, 'BOUNDARY')
 
+    def test_make_boundary(self):
+        msg = MIMEMultipart('form-data')
+        # Note that when the boundary gets created is an implementation
+        # detail and might change.
+        self.assertEqual(msg.items()[0][1], 'multipart/form-data')
+        # Trigger creation of boundary
+        msg.as_string()
+        self.assertEqual(msg.items()[0][1][:33],
+                        'multipart/form-data; boundary="==')
+        # XXX: there ought to be tests of the uniqueness of the boundary, too.
+
     def test_message_rfc822_only(self):
         # Issue 7970: message/rfc822 not in multipart parsed by
         # HeaderParser caused an exception when flattened.