Two email module questions

[Paul Mackinney]

1. There are two obvious ways to use email.message_from_file. Am I
correct in assuming that method a. is prefered, because method b. leaves
an open file with no convenient way to close it?

   a. fn  = file('foo','r')
      msg = email.message_from_file(fn)
   		fn.close()
    
   b. msg = email.message_from_file(file('foo','r'))


2. After importing a message, I get a bogus extra line at the top when I
   print it:

---begin foo---
From: Paul Mackinney <paul at mackinney.net>
To: debian <debian-user at lists.debian.org>
Cc: 
Bcc: 
Subject: The fascinating story of my life

I eat a lot of spam.
---end foo--

   >>> msg = message_from_file('foo')
   >>> print msg
   From nobody Thu Jan  9 01:16:54 2003
   From: Paul Mackinney <paul at mackinney.net>
   To: debian <debian-user at lists.debian.org>
   Cc: 
   Bcc: 
   Subject: The fascinating story of my life
   
   I eat a lot of spam.
   
   >>> 

What's going on here? The 'From nobody...' line doesn't show in
msg.keys(), I couldn't find this behavior in the docs.

TIA, Paul
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Paul Mackinney
paul at mackinney.net