How do I decode unicode characters in the subject using email.message_from_string()?
John Machin
sjmachin at lexicon.net
Tue Feb 24 19:52:15 EST 2009
On Feb 25, 11:07 am, "Roy H. Han" <starsareblueandfara... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Dear python-list,
>
> I'm having some trouble decoding an email header using the standard
> imaplib.IMAP4 class and email.message_from_string method.
>
> In particular, email.message_from_string() does not seem to properly
> decode unicode characters in the subject.
>
> How do I decode unicode characters in the subject?
You don't. You can't. You decode str objects into unicode objects. You
encode unicode objects into str objects. If your input is not a str
object, you have a problem.
I'm no expert on the email package, but experts don't have crystal
balls, so let's gather some data for them while we're waiting for
their timezones to align:
Presumably your code is doing something like:
msg = email.message_from_string(a_string)
Please report the results of
print repr(a_string)
and
print type(msg)
print msg.items()
and tell us what you expected.
Cheers,
John
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