MIMETOOLS QUESTION

[Gregoire Welraeds]

In reply to the message of Fredrik Lundh sent on Mar 3 (see below) :

> fwiw, there's plenty of cookbooks out there.  here are a few:

Ok... but it could be very smart if basic example could be inserted in the
(how should I call it ... official ?) doc. And have advanced topics and
discussion in other resources. 

Any reaction ?

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On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 19:39:51 GMT
> From: Fredrik Lundh <effbot at telia.com>
> To: python-list at python.org
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
> Subject: Re: MIMETOOLS QUESTION
> 
> Gregoire Welraeds <greg at perceval.be> wrote:
> > According to the Library reference doc, on page 244 (section 12.7) the
> > package tool define a Message(fp[,seekable]). Wel, very cool... but what
> > are fp and seekable after all ?
> 
> the copy I have points out that mimetools.Message is a sub-
> class of rfc822.Message.  the arguments are well explained
> in that chapter...
> 
> > All I want is to parse a MIME header from a string read on a socket...
> 
> the Message takes any file object which properly implements
> "readline".  you can use StringIO to access your string as if
> it were a file -- or in this case, you can use "makefile" on the
> socket to wrap the socket itself in a file object.
> 
> > I found that, except for the tutorial, there is a lack of example in the
> > python documentation. Python is not a strong typed language so it's pretty
> > difficult to find the meaning of some arguments used in the API.
> >
> > Maybe Guido could take some example of the Faqts site to put them in the
> > doc... Guido ?
> 
> better make that "Fred"
> 
> fwiw, there's plenty of cookbooks out there.  here are a few:
> 
> + Python Annotated Archives (by Martin Brown):
> 
>     http://www.python.org/psa/bookstore
> 
>   50+ sample scripts from various sources; extensive
>   annotations by the author.  massive piece of work.
> 
> + Programming with Python (by Tim Altom):
> 
>     http://www.python.org/psa/bookstore
> 
>   have only browsed it, but it appears to be a budget
>   version of the annotated archives.  early reviewers
>   seem to think it's no good, so you may wish to check
>   it out in a bookstore before buying it.
> 
> + The Python Grimoire (by Andrew Kuchling):
> 
>     http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/grimoire/
> 
>   work in progress; sample scripts from various (mostly
>   unattributed?) sources; sorted by task.  (like martin's
>   book, this seems to contain some eff-bot code, so it
>   cannot be all bad ;-)
> 
> + (the eff-bot guide to) The Standard Python Library,
>   eMatter edition (by Fredrik Lundh):
> 
>     http://www.pythonware.com/people/fredrik/librarybook.htm
> 
>   320 sample scripts, sorted by standard library module.
>   more code and less annotations than the others (after
>   all, python code is supposed to be easy to read ;-).
> 
> </F>
> 
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