Alex Corcoles <a...@pdp7.net> added the comment:
To clarify (and maybe help someone which might come across), you mean:
In [1]: message_text = """To: a...@corcoles.net
...: Subject: ** ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Host Alert: archerc7.bcn.int.pdp7.net is
DOWN
...: **
...: User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.5 7/5/10
...: MIME-Version: 1.0
...: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
...: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
...:
...: ***** Nagios *****
...: """
In [2]: import email
In [4]: message = email.message_from_string(message_text)
In [5]: message.get('Subject')
Out[5]: '** ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Host Alert: archerc7.bcn.int.pdp7.net is DOWN\n **'
In [7]: from email import policy
In [8]: message = email.message_from_string(message_text, policy=policy.HTTP)
In [9]: message.get('Subject')
Out[9]: '** ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Host Alert: archerc7.bcn.int.pdp7.net is DOWN **'
Yeah, there's a bundled policy that does what I need, but I think it's not very
intuitive.
I get that the stdlib is deliberately low level in these parts, and it's more
of building block to create higher level libraries on top of that, but still I
feel that getting an email's subject in a friendly fashion should be easy and
intuitive in the stdlib, or the stdlib's docs should point out clearly to go
and look for a higher level library because email is hard.
OTOH, working with mail sucks and should be discouraged, so if you want to
close this definitely I won't complain.
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status: closed -> open
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