How do I get a mimetools.Message object from a mailbox.UnixMailbox object?

[Ben Wolfson]

In article <vgmh5tkv7h0blpv6j8t1soiipoaum64u7v at 4ax.com>,
Paul Moore  <gustav at morpheus.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>I'm parsing a Unix mbox format file in Python. No problem, that's what
>the mailbox module does...
>
>The problem is, mbx.next() returns a rfc822.Message instance - and my
>mailbox contains MIME-encoded messages with attachments. How do I get
>from the rfc822.Message instance to a mimetools.Message instance?

I don't know how well this will work, and it seems rather unsavory,
but:

>>> import mailbox
>>> import mimetools
>>> mailbox.rfc822.Message = mimetools.Message
>>> mailbox.rfc822.Message
<class mimetools.Message at 00B603BC>



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