Python 1.5.2 - Multipart Mime handling.

[james]

Ok thank you for your help this morning I have made some progress, but
I am still having problems and was wondering if any python guru's
would tell me what I am doing wrong.

Below is the code I have come up with. (Please excuse the messy code
this is a learning experience I'll make it nicer and remove all the
print statments once it works)

I'm getting this error: (and i'm not sure why! can someone help me? Is
what I am trying to do possible?)




Traceback (innermost last):
  File "MAILIN2.py", line 185, in ?
    rawtext = mf.read()
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/multifile.py", line 118, in read
    return string.joinfields(self.readlines(), '')
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/multifile.py", line 112, in readlines
    line = self.readline()
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/multifile.py", line 93, in readline
    if marker == self.section_divider(sep):
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/multifile.py", line 157, in section_divider
    return "--" + str
TypeError: illegal argument type for built-in operation



#Code out line
#if message piped into stdin is multipart decode & extract all parts
to files
#if just one part plain text extract to file 
                    
                    
                    #read in from stdin
                    mailheaders = mimetools.Message(sys.stdin)
                    mailbody = sys.stdin.read()

                    
                    #set up part counter
                    #partno = 1

                    #get Content-Type
                    contenttype =
mailheaders.getheader('Content-Type', 'text/plain')
                    #set contenttype to force entering if statment
                    #contenttype = "multipart/"
                    
                    if contenttype[:10] ==("multipart/"):
                        #set up string buffer
                        mailstream = StringIO(mailbody)
                        print "MAILSTREAM =>",mailstream
                        mimemsg = mailheaders
                        print "mimemsg =>", mimemsg
                        #get boundary
                        boundary = mimemsg.getparam("boundary")
                        print "Boundry =>", boundary
                        #make pointer in buffer
                        mf = multifile.MultiFile(mailstream)
                        print "mf =>", mf
                        #push boundary string in buffer
                        mf.push(boundary)
                        
                     
                        while mf.next():
                            print "HERE"
                            msgpart = mimetools.Message(mf)
                            print "msgpart => ", msgpart
                            subtype = msgpart.gettype()
                            print "subtype=>",subtype
         ###Line 185 is next
                            rawtext = mf.read()
                            print "rawtext=>",rawtext
                            
                            if subtype == 'text/plain':
                                # save as text file
                                name = msgpart.get_param("name")
                                if name==None:
                                    name = "part-%i" % partno
                                f=open(name,"wb")
                               
f.write(msg.part.get_payload(decode=1))
                                f.close()
                                print name, "extracted to file"
                                partno = partno + 1 
                                
                            else:
                                name = msgpart.get_param("name")
                                if name==None:
                                    name = "part-%i" % partno
                                f=open(name,"wb")
                                f.write(msgpart.get_payload(decode=1))
                                f.close()
                                print name, "extracted to file"
                                partno = partno + 1
                                

                    #Else if Content-Type is text/plain, get the body
text
                    elif contenttype[:10] == "text/plain":
                        bodytext = msg.fp.read()
                       
                    else:
                        bodytext = 'no body text'