[Tutor] using 'mailbox'

[Rick Pasotto]

On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 11:24:17AM -0700, Sheila King wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 14:09:19 -0400, Rick Pasotto <rick@niof.net>  wrote
> about [Tutor] using 'mailbox':
> 
> :What am I overlooking? I have a file in unix mailbox format that I would
> :like to process by changing the body of each message. Using the mailbox
> :module I can get and deal with the headers but I'm not seeing how to
> :deal with the body.
> 
> from the mailbox module docs:
> "By defaul this is an rfc822.Message object (see the rfc822 module)."
> 
> The rfc822.Message object is only the headers. You need to read in the
> message body separately.

This is what I didn't know how to do. Just figured it out.

>>> import mailbox
>>> filep = open('mbox')
>>> mb = mailbox.UnixMailbox(filep)
>>> msg = mb.next()
>>> body = msg.fp.readlines()

Now msg contains all the headers and body contains the rest of the
message.

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