email module documentation

[Robert Kern]

David Bear wrote:
> I'm confused about how to use the email module in python 2.4.x
> 
> I'm using python packaged with suse 9.3. 
> 
>>From the module documetation at http://docs.python.org/lib/node597.html I
> found the following example (items cut):
> 
> import email
> 
> ...
> msg = email.message_from_file(fp)
> ..
> 
> Yet, when I try this I get the message 
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'message_from_file'
> 
> so I dir(email) reveals:
> 
> ['__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', 'cStringIO', 'email',
> 'getMessage', 'sys']
> 
> This is nothing like the documentation on python.org.
> 
> Any idea what I am missing?

That's not what I have on OS X with Python 2.4.1.

In [1]: import email

In [2]: dir(email)
Out[2]:
['__all__',
 '__builtins__',
 '__doc__',
 '__file__',
 '__name__',
 '__path__',
 '__version__',
 'message_from_file',
 'message_from_string']

Are you sure that you're getting the right file? Check email.__file__ .

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