[PATCH 2 of 3] convert: Fix authormap handling of lines without '='; refactor readauthormap()

[Frank A. Kingswood]

Marti Raudsepp wrote:
> # HG changeset patch
> # User Marti Raudsepp <marti at juffo.org>
> # Date 1235986682 0
> # Node ID 500b4fd352a9194c2a52b90e922f5110cdabeda9
> # Parent  4c4f8257cd43d5a8ad1002f9348979c0dfef6ffc
> convert: Fix authormap handling of lines without '='; refactor readauthormap()
> 
> Unpacking the result from str.split raises ValueError, not IndexError, if the

As you are already touching this, can you make it accept comments in the 
author map as well please?

Frank