MIMEText breaking the rules?

Dale Strickland-Clark dale at riverhall.nospam.co.uk
Sun Aug 5 20:10:19 EDT 2007


Tim Roberts wrote:

> Dale Strickland-Clark <dale at riverhall.nospam.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>The email module's mimetext handling isn't what you might expect from
>>something that appears to behave like a dictionary.
>>...
>>Having apparently REPLACED my recipient, what I've ended up with is both
>>of them.
> 
> This behavior is documented in Message.Message, from which MIMEText
> eventually inherits.  If you want to start over, delete the item:
> 
>   del Msg["To"]
> 
> I would have to say that the existing behavior is more intuitive for an
> email object.

Thanks for the info.

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Dale Strickland-Clark
Riverhall Systems - www.riverhall.co.uk 




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