Problems with multipart messages w/email class

[Joseph Wilhelm]

On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 11:12, Joseph Wilhelm wrote:
<snip>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "/opt/python/lib/python2.2/email/Message.py", line 59, in
> as_string
>     g(self, unixfrom=unixfrom)
>   File "/opt/python/lib/python2.2/email/Generator.py", line 83, in
> __call__
>     self._write(msg)
>   File "/opt/python/lib/python2.2/email/Generator.py", line 104, in
> _write
>     self._dispatch(msg)
>   File "/opt/python/lib/python2.2/email/Generator.py", line 134, in
> _dispatch
>     meth(msg)
>   File "/opt/python/lib/python2.2/email/Generator.py", line 240, in
> _handle_multipart
>     for part in msg.get_payload():
>   File "/opt/python/lib/python2.2/email/Message.py", line 151, in
> __getitem__
>     return self.get(name)
>   File "/opt/python/lib/python2.2/email/Message.py", line 214, in get
>     name = name.lower()
> AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'lower'
<snip>

Well, I have gotten a small fix for this traceback put into my copy of
Generator.py. I don't know if it should be necessarry, but this is what
I got to make it work (At line 240):

I replaced

for part in msg.get_payload():


With

pload = msg.get_payload()
if type( pload ) is not ListType:
     pload = [ pload ]
for part in pload:

Just something very small and simple, but it was necessarry to make this
email work properly. Any comments on this? Is this a known bug? Is there
something I may have done wrong that would cause the previous error?

--Joseph Wilhelm