[Tutor] how to get an email attachment

wesley chun wescpy at gmail.com
Tue Aug 22 22:15:38 CEST 2006


On 8/21/06, shawn bright <nephish at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, indeed. I found in the essential reference book. It looks like it works
> in the email module also. I will try a few things out here and let you know
> how it goes.
> thanks.
>
> shawn
>
>
>  On 8/21/06, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at freenet.co.uk> wrote:
> > I'm no expert here, but isn't there a Mime module for
> > handling mail attachments? Might be worth a look.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "shawn bright" < nephish at gmail.com>
> > Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 9:50 PM
> >
> > What i need to do is get an attachment. That
> > > attachment
> > > is going to be encoded in base 64.
> > > so, i am looking and i can't find how to get the attachment.

shawn,

in particular, check out the email.Message submodule, esp. get_payload().

good luck!
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