email package - how to get message body

[Rudy Schockaert]

Mario Premke wrote:
> Hi,
> possibly a stupid question, but anyhow, I can not find a method in the
> email package to get an email body ( I mean the text seperated from
> the header by one blank line). I can parse an email file so that I
> have the object model of an email and play around with it (alter
> header properties, etc. ) - what I wonder now is if there is a method
> which returns the simple text message ???
> 
> Thans in advance  
> Mario

You can use msg.get_payload() where msg is the object representing your 
email. Note that things can be more complicated than that depending on 
the email message you're about to inspect. Some emails have 
multipart/alternative parts each representing the same message but each 
time in a different format (text,html, ...)

You can always try the following:

for part in msg.walk():
     print part.get_content_type()

to get a list of message parts.

Rudy