re.sub problem

[Terry Reedy]

"Tim Hicks" <tim.hicks at iname.com> wrote in message
news:02oM5.146$856.1663 at news11-gui.server.ntli.net...
> I have a series of lines that are received from an IMAP server that I
would
> like to trim down. There are two examples of these below.
>
> 24 ('24 (BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (FROM SUBJECT)] {56}', 'From:
> tele at telegraph.co.uk\015\012Subject: TPLO Sport Talk\015\012\015\012')

> 41 ('41 (BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (FROM SUBJECT)] {88}', 'From: The Mutual
> <mobilesatprizescratch.com at traq.it>\015\012Subject: Great WAP Phone
> Offer\015\012\015\012')
>
> I want to remove everything up to the " 'From: " and everything after the
> end of the subject of the email (should be obvious where that is). I
figured
> that I should use re,

I would use slice and find method if needed

from_subject = stuff[29:-6] # numbers approximate

If inital junk now always same length, use string.find or
stuff.find('From') to get initial slice position