Regular Expressions and RFC 822

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.1021842390.22408.python-list at python.org>,
alex gigh <cogs2002 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>I am trying to write a mail server in Python and I found out that I can use 
>regular expressions and then grouping:
>
>"For example, an RFC-822 header line is divided into a header name and a 
>value, separated by a ":". This can be handled by writing a regular 
>expression which matches an entire header line, and has one group which 
>matches the header name, and another group which matches the header's value. 
>"
>
>Can someone help me by showing me an example of how I could do this...

Use the email module.
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