Comment 2 for bug 1760506

Mark, thanks very much for working on this.

   Thanks

   Bruce

On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 9:43 AM, Mark Sapiro <email address hidden> wrote:

> ** Changed in: mailman
> Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
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> Title:
> mm_cfg.py syntax error is handled ungracefully
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> Status in GNU Mailman:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> The user left a trailing quote out in mm_cfg.py . Mailman's response
> was to fail with the message "Mailman experienced a very low level
> failure". Perhaps "low-level failure" was Mailman's opinion of the
> user :-) One would hope that we could catch an exception from Python
> and give the user a bit more help. Thanks! - Bruce
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