From nicholas.cole at gmail.com  Sun Oct  2 09:45:52 2011
From: nicholas.cole at gmail.com (Nicholas Cole)
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 08:45:52 +0100
Subject: [Email-SIG] Splitting a list of addresses
Message-ID: <CAAu18hcfH1-oYNO0cqfG2M9YBWKHH7M89D0gAppHm8B9TiBvAw@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Email Group,

Given a string containing a list of addresses separated by a comma,
such as one might find in a 'CC' field,  email.utils.parseaddr
correctly parses the first address and then silently ignores all of
the following ones.  Could a version of that function be put into the
library that returned a tuple of tuples, rather than just dropping the
additional information?

Best wishes,

N.

From cs at zip.com.au  Sun Oct  2 09:57:20 2011
From: cs at zip.com.au (Cameron Simpson)
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 18:57:20 +1100
Subject: [Email-SIG] Splitting a list of addresses
In-Reply-To: <CAAu18hcfH1-oYNO0cqfG2M9YBWKHH7M89D0gAppHm8B9TiBvAw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAAu18hcfH1-oYNO0cqfG2M9YBWKHH7M89D0gAppHm8B9TiBvAw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20111002075720.GA24656@cskk.homeip.net>

On 02Oct2011 08:45, Nicholas Cole <nicholas.cole at gmail.com> wrote:
| Given a string containing a list of addresses separated by a comma,
| such as one might find in a 'CC' field,  email.utils.parseaddr
| correctly parses the first address and then silently ignores all of
| the following ones.  Could a version of that function be put into the
| library that returned a tuple of tuples, rather than just dropping the
| additional information?

What, like this?

  http://docs.python.org/library/email.util.html#email.utils.getaddresses

That's exactly what you want, I think.
-- 
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