Parsing the body of an email

[Cameron Laird]

In article <vqqlsts381gc1 at news.supernews.com>,
John Roth <newsgroups at jhrothjr.com> wrote:
>
>"BoBo the monkey" <coryvb123 at hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:ad329f8a.0311081240.7ab628c2 at posting.google.com...
>> I would like to know if anyone out there can give me an example or any
>> help with this. Using Python, I need to take the body of an email,
>> which has already been saved as a string, and parse it up into
>> different pieces which exist in said body.
>
>See the email package under the Internet Data Handling
>section of the Python Library Reference. It's section 12.2
>in the Python 2.2.3 manual set.
>
>John Roth
>
>

Mr. Roth, if I understand BoBo's original posting, his question
actually has nothing to do with e-mail, in our terms; he's just
trying to parse a long string that happened to originate within
an e-mail system.

BoBo, you described your message as segmented into several sec-
tions.  Do they always appear in the same order?  If so, a
regular expression will probably be handiest for this job.  If
not, you'll build a simple, simple finite-state machine, and
feed it the message a line at a time.
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Cameron Laird <claird at phaseit.net>
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