On Fri, Jun 24, 2005, Hugo González Monteverde wrote: >Hi nephish, > >I clearly remember it is very very simple and it is defined in the RFC. >As far as I remember, the end of the headers are signalled by an empty line. > >Try looking for '\n\n', this should do the trick. I've saved a couple of >emails and it looks like this should work.
See http://docs.python.org/lib/module-email.html for easy ways to handle e-mail. The email module has utilities that make it easy to handle headers and body. >something like: > >#full_text holds the full text of the message > >bodypos = full_text.find('\n\n') + 2 > >body = full_text[bodypos:] > >#body now holds the message body > >Please let us know if this works, hope it helps. > >Hugo > >nephish wrote: >> Does anyone know how to strip everything off of an email? >> i have a little app that i am working on to read an email message and >> write the >> body of a message to a log file. >> each email this address gets is only about three to five lines long. >> but i cannot seem to get just the body filtered through. >> i get all the headers, the path, what spam-wall it went through, etc... >> >> any suggestions would be greatly appreciated . >> thanks >> _______________________________________________ >> Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >> >_______________________________________________ >Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > -- Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``Good luck to all you optimists out there who think Microsoft can deliver 35 million lines of quality code on which you can operate your business.'' -- John C. Dvorak _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
