Module rfc822 - uses file-objects - why?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Thomas Volkmar Worm wrote:
> I started to write a little programm which reads mails from a POP3
> account. To handle the message I thought, I use the rfc822 module or one
> of its subclasses (mimetools). But the methods I want to use always
> expect file-objects as parameters. Do I need to store every list/string
> onto disk when I want to use these classes or methods on them?

import StringIO
file = StringIO.StringIO(data)

see the library reference for details.

Cheers /F

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