Bernard Delmée: > I am using the "email" module to decode incoming messages. > (with msg = email.message_from_file( msg_file )) > Sometimes an attachment has its name (as returned by > msg.walk().part.get_filename()) not in ASCII (e.g. > '=?iso-8859-1?q?somefile=2ezip?=') How can I turn that into > simply 'somefile.zip' ? I have looked into email.Utils and > codecs, but cannot find what should work.
>>> import email.Header >>> x = '=?iso-8859-1?q?somefile=2ezip?=' >>> email.Header.decode_header(x) [('somefile.zip', 'iso-8859-1')] Neil -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list