parsing IMAP responses?

[Grant Edwards]

According to Google, the question has come up before, but there
doesn't seem to be much of an answer.

The imaplib module return values are mostly useless as-is:
they're just whatever string the server sent (or in some cases
a list of strings).  You've got to parse them using the IMAP
syntax before you can do much with them. 

Is there a library somewhere that impliments the IMAP protocol
syntax?

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