get date from email

[Thomas Guettler]

Hi,

up to now I use this code to parse date values from emails:

msg=email.message_from_file(open(file_name))
date=None
date_str=msg.get('date')
if date_str:
    date_tuple=email.utils.parsedate_tz(date_str)
    if date_tuple:
        date=datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(email.utils.mktime_tz(date_tuple))
if date:
    ... # valid date found


Somehow this looks too complicated. Any chance to integrate the datetime module into the email module?

related: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1790795/python-parsing-date-with-timezone-from-an-email

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Thomas Guettler, http://www.thomas-guettler.de/
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