Gentlemen, please consider the following ipython session:
In [98]: m = email.message_from_file(f)
In [99]: print m["subject"]
=?utf-8?b?W291aS5jb20uYnJdIENhcnTDo28gZGUgY3LDqWRpdG8gdGVyw6EgbGVn?=
=?utf-8?b?aXNsYcOnw6NvIGVzcGVjw61maWNh?=
It gives me the raw subject header value. Now of course I just wanted
the header in unicode. So I have to do:
In [100]: from email.header import decode_header
In [101]: decode_header(m["subject"])
Out[101]:
[('[oui.com.br] Cart\xc3\xa3o de cr\xc3\xa9dito ter\xc3\xa1
legisla\xc3\xa7\xc3\xa3o espec\xc3\xadfica',
'utf-8')]
In [102]: print decode_header(m["subject"])[0][0]
[oui.com.br] Cartão de crédito terá legislação específica
My questions are:
1) Why does not it currently return the *decoded* header?
2) Would it break too many apps if we changed it?
2.1) If it would, can we add a function such as
message.getheader("subject") for this?
2.1.1) Would you like me to propose a patch with the obvious implementation?
Sometimes, for things more or less like this, I just feel like
*subclassing* Message. But I can't. The MIME parser is wired to create
Messages. I don't think I can tell it to create a MyMessageSubclass.
This also happens with the convenience function
email.message_from_file(f). It creates a Message. I *think* I could make
it into a class method of Message, then I would be able to call
MyMessage.from_file(). Is this idea -- making things more
object-oriented -- interesting for you?
For starters, isn't it high time Message became a new-style class by
inheriting from object?
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Nando Florestan
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