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andy
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Sat Oct 22 05:47:41 EDT 2016
Fri, 21 Oct 2016 22:43:55 -0400 wrote Adam Jensen:
> The mailbox library documentation seems to be a little weak. In this
> example:
>
> https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/mailbox.html#examples
>
> import mailbox for message in mailbox.mbox('~/mbox'):
> subject = message['subject'] # Could possibly be None.
> if subject and 'python' in subject.lower():
> print subject
>
> What is the structure of "message"? I guess it's a dictionary but what
> is its structure? What are the keys? Is the structure constant or does
> it change depending upon the content of the mbox?
>
> I'm a bit new to python documentation. How would a potential user of the
> "mailbox" library determine these things? Or did I miss something?
I would type: help(mailbox) after importing it.
best regards
andy
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