Oopss! You are totally right guys, i did miss the closing '>' thinking about maybe errors in the use of ' or ".
Jesus Tim Roberts wrote: >"Jesus Rivero - (Neurogeek)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>hmmm, that's kind of different issue then. >> >>I can guess, from the error you pasted earlier, that the problem shown >>is due to the fact Python is interpreting a "<" as an expression and not >>as a char. review your code or try to figure out the exact input you're >>receving within the mta. >> >> > >Well, Jesus, you are 0 for 2. Sakcee pointed out what the exact problem >was in his original message. The HTML he is being given is ill-formed; the ><!DOCTYPE directive is not closed. The SGML parser finds a <html> tag >which it thinks is inside the <!DOCTYPE, and that's illegal. > > > >>>well probabbly I should explain more. this is part of an email . after >>>the mta delivers the email, it is stored in a local dir. >>>After that the email is being parsed by the parser inside an web based >>>imap client at display time. >>> >>>I dont think I have the choice of rewriting the message!? and I dont >>>want to reject the message alltogether. >>> >>>I can either 1-fix the incoming html by tidying it up >>>or 2- strip only plain text out and dispaly that you have spam, 3 - or >>>ignore that mal-formatted tag and display the rest >>> >>> > >If this is happening with more than one message, you could check for it >rather easily with a regular expression, or even just ''.find, and then >either insert a closing '>' or delete everything up to the <html> before >parsing it. > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list