The email and mailbox modules might help you out. Multiple email messages will probably parse as an mbox format mailbox.
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-email.html http://docs.python.org/lib/module-mailbox.html Cheers On Friday 28 March 2008 03:14, linuxian iandsd wrote: > good morning everybody ! > > I have scripted a small program to parse a 5 lines email message as it > comes in to my inbox (this is handled by procmail & here is a wonderful > intro to it : http://linuxfocus.org/English/November1997/article8.html) > > so every email is being parsed & information is extracted from it. > > but sometimes two or more emails come in at once so the input file that my > python script has to parse is more than five lines !! my question is how do > i effeciently manage this from within my original script. > > thanks _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
