[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-458885 ] rfc822.Message.unixfrom is not documented

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Bugs item #458885, was opened at 2001-09-05 13:38
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>Category: Documentation
>Group: None
>Status: Open
Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Skip Montanaro (montanaro)
>Assigned to: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
>Summary: rfc822.Message.unixfrom is not documented

Initial Comment:
The mailbox.UnixMailbox class makes it easy to walk
over a Unix From_-style mailbox.  Unfortunately, it
loses the From_ line.  From_ lines are not part of
RFC822 message headers, so they should be kept by the
UnixMailbox
instance.  I tried a couple things in a private subclass
of UnixMailbox, but didn't come up with something 
workable.  Ideally, when I have an rfc822.Message object
from Unixmailbox I should be able to ask the mailbox
object for its from_ line.


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>Comment By: Skip Montanaro (montanaro)
Date: 2001-09-05 15:03

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Ah!  Thanks!  Reopening as a doc bug and reassigning to Fred,
which explains why I didn't find it. ;-)

Patch attached...


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Comment By: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum)
Date: 2001-09-05 13:51

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The From_ line is saved as the 'unixfrom' attribute of the
message objects -- this is a standard feature of the
rfc822.Message class.

Example:

>>> fn = "/var/spool/mail/guido"
>>> box = mailbox.UnixMailbox(open(fn))
>>> m = box.next()
>>> m.unixfrom
'From python-bugs-list-admin@python.org  Wed Sep  5 16:42:21
2001\n\
'
>>> 



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