On 04/21/2013 01:31 PM, Jason Friedman wrote:
I will be receiving email that contains, say, 10 images, and I want to forward that message on after removing, say, 5 of those images. I will remove based on size, for example 1679 bytes. I am aware that other images besides the unwanted ones could be 1679 bytes but this is unlikely and the impact of mistakes is small.I have figured out how to compose and send an email message from parts: from, to, subject, and some images. I was planning to read the incoming message, write the images I want to keep to files, then use those files to construct the outgoing message. I cannot figure out how to read the incoming message and extract the images. message_in = email.message_from_binary_file(open(file_name, "rb")) for part in message_in.walk(): print("-" * 80) print("type: " + part.get_content_maintype()) for key, value in part.items(): print("key: " + key) print("value: " + value) ------------------------- type: multipart key: Return-Path value: <[email protected]> key: X-Original-To value: myuser@myhost ... key: Content-Type value: multipart/alternative; boundary="_000_A9E5330AAB8D0D4E8F9372F872EE8504010458F671hostden_" --_000_A9E5330AAB8D0D4E8F9372F872EE85040104591ECChostden_-- --_010_A9E5330AAB8D0D4E8F9372F872EE85040104591ECChostden_ Content-Type: image/png; name="image001.png" Content-Description: image001.png Content-Disposition: inline; filename="image001.png"; size=9257; creation-date="Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:48:29 GMT"; modification-date="Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:48:29 GMT" Content-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAANcAAAAwCAYAAACCPO+PAAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJ bWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAI8tJREFUeNrsXQlYVdUW/u+Fey+TCqgJTqA4i4rzjDM4pGaZU449yxAM Xy+bfY1WZpmZkpapZVpZmpmiKCqoOOGEGjmLI6AioMxcuO/f5+wLl0HFqVd59/ftz3sO+5yzzz7r ... ---------------------- I'm guessing my image is in there, how do I get it out?
One possibility, see the base64 module: http://docs.python.org/library/base64.html -- DaveA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
