[Spambayes] Problems with unheader.py

Barry A. Warsaw barry@python.org
Tue, 24 Sep 2002 23:58:07 -0400


>>>>> "TP" == Tim Peters <tim.one@comcast.net> writes:

    TP> [Greg Ward]
    >> ...  OK: anyone know how to get the raw message body from an
    >> email.Message object?  Or am I gonna have to RTFM?

    TP> Barry knows, but he usually won't tell you anything unless you
    TP> buy him lunch first.

    TP> str(msg) returns the whole msg as a string, including the
    TP> headers.  I'm not aware of a way to get just the body (unless
    TP> you luck out and it's not multipart, in which case
    TP> get_payload() does the trick).

There's always a way, and (ssh! don't tell Guido!) sometimes more than
one way.

Looks like you got what you wanted with HeaderParser, so we'll leave
it at that <wink>.

-Barry