Extract zip file from email attachment

[erikcw]

On Apr 6, 12:51 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-... at yahoo.com.ar>
wrote:
> erikcw wrote:
> >         resp = p.retr(msg_num)
> >         if resp[0].startswith('+OK'):
>
> You don't have to check this; errors are transformed into exceptions.
>
> >                     fileObj = StringIO.StringIO()
>
> cStringIO is faster
>
> >                     fileObj.write( part.get_payload() )
>
> You have to reset the file pointer to the beginning: fileObj.seek(0),
> else ZipFile will not be able to read the contents.
>
> --
> Gabriel Genellina

Hi Gabriel,

I added fileObj.seek(0) on the line directly after
fileObj.write( part.get_payload() ) and I'm still getting the
following error.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "wa.py", line 209, in <module>
    attachment = zipfile.ZipFile(fileObj)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/zipfile.py", line 346, in __init__
    self._GetContents()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/zipfile.py", line 366, in _GetContents
    self._RealGetContents()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/zipfile.py", line 378, in _RealGetContents
    raise BadZipfile, "File is not a zip file"
zipfile.BadZipfile: File is not a zip file

Could the file like object still be encoded in MIME or something?

Thanks!
Erik