Mart. wrote:
If, as Terry suggested, you do have a tuple of strings and the first element has FTPHOST, then s[0].split(":")[1].strip() will work.It is an email which contains information before and after the main section I am interested in, namely... FINISHED: 09/07/2009 08:42:31 MEDIATYPE: FtpPull MEDIAFORMAT: FILEFORMAT FTPHOST: e4ftl01u.ecs.nasa.gov FTPDIR: /PullDir/0301872638CySfQB Ftp Pull Download Links: ftp://e4ftl01u.ecs.nasa.gov/PullDir/0301872638CySfQB Down load ZIP file of packaged order: ftp://e4ftl01u.ecs.nasa.gov/PullDir/0301872638CySfQB.zip FTPEXPR: 09/12/2009 08:42:31 MEDIA 1 of 1 MEDIAID: I have been doing this to turn the email into a string email = sys.argv[1] f = open(email, 'r') s = str(f.readlines())
So don't do that. Or rather, scan the list of lines returned by .readlines *before* dumping it all into one line.
Or, try the email module. When the email parser returns a .message.Message instance, msg['FTPHOST'] will give you what you want.
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