import rfc822 # email headers and such

[Matthew Schinckel]

In message <39999AED.F412E930 at ix.netcom.com>, Thomas Gagne wrote:
> I may soon have the need to accept as input to Python an email message that
> will either a) have an XML document attached to it or b) have XML as the
> body
> of the message.  I don't see mothods int he rfc822 module for accessing the
> body, or attachments, much less decoding them if necessary.
> 
> Maybe there's another module for that?
> 

Certainly is: try looking in the next few pages after rfc822.

mimetools and multifile in particular.

Then use any XML extraction tools to get the data (treated like a file object).


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Matthew Schinckel     <matt at null.net>