Logged In: YES 
user_id=57665

I am glad the special characters in passwords are now
accepted.  But that is only half a fix!  My ~/.netrc
contains entries without a "login" field, thus I still
cannot use the netrc module, it bails out at the first line.  
Therefore I have re-opened this issue.
All other programs work just fine with this .netrc file. 
Please at least do not produce the NetrcParseError when the
"login" field is omitted.  This can be done by changing the
"else:" above "malformed %s entry" to "elif not password:".
 That is the minimal change to make this module work on my
system.

Note to montanaro: I have not seen a .netrc file that has a
space in the password.