On 3/18/2023 10:49 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
Hi,
https://docs.python.org/3/library/email.parser.html
It says "For MIME messages, the root object will return True from its
is_multipart() method, and the subparts can be accessed via the
payload manipulation methods, such as get_body(), iter_parts(), and
walk()."
But when I try the following code, get_body() is not found. How to get
get_body() to work?
$ python3 -c 'import email, sys; msg =
email.message_from_string(sys.stdin.read()); print(msg.get_body())'
<<< some_text
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'Message' object has no attribute 'get_body'
A Message object does not have a get_body method, but an EmailMessage
object does.
In the Python 3.10 docs, Just before the part you quoted, there is this
sentence:
"You can pass the parser a bytes, string or file object, and the parser
will return to you the root EmailMessage instance of the object
structure".
So if you want to use get_body(), you should be feeding the parser your
message string, rather than using email.message_from_string(), which
returns a Message, not an EmailMessage.
With a Message object, you could use get_payload(), which will give you
a list of Messages for each MIME part of the document. When a part is
not a multipart, it will give you a string, which sounds like what you
want to end up with.
(see https://docs.python.org/3.10/library/email.compat32-message.html)
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