On Feb 25, 11:07 am, "Roy H. Han" <starsareblueandfara...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear python-list, > > I'm having some trouble decoding an email header using the standard > imaplib.IMAP4 class and email.message_from_string method. > > In particular, email.message_from_string() does not seem to properly > decode unicode characters in the subject. > > How do I decode unicode characters in the subject?
You don't. You can't. You decode str objects into unicode objects. You encode unicode objects into str objects. If your input is not a str object, you have a problem. I'm no expert on the email package, but experts don't have crystal balls, so let's gather some data for them while we're waiting for their timezones to align: Presumably your code is doing something like: msg = email.message_from_string(a_string) Please report the results of print repr(a_string) and print type(msg) print msg.items() and tell us what you expected. Cheers, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list