email module documentation

[David Bear]

I'm confused about how to use the email module in python 2.4.x

I'm using python packaged with suse 9.3.

From the module documetation at http://docs.python.org/lib/node597.html I
found the following example (items cut):

import email

....
msg = email.message_from_file(fp)
...

Yet, when I try this I get the message

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'message_from_file'

so I dir(email) reveals:

['__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', 'cStringIO', 'email',
'getMessage', 'sys']

This is nothing like the documentation on python.org.

Any idea what I am missing?

 

[Robert Kern]

I'm confused about how to use the email module in python 2.4.x

I'm using python packaged with suse 9.3.

From the module documetation at http://docs.python.org/lib/node597.html I

found the following example (items cut):

import email

...
msg = email.message_from_file(fp)
..

Yet, when I try this I get the message

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'message_from_file'

so I dir(email) reveals:

['__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', 'cStringIO', 'email',
'getMessage', 'sys']

This is nothing like the documentation on python.org.

Any idea what I am missing?

That's not what I have on OS X with Python 2.4.1.

In [1]: import email

In [2]: dir(email)
Out[2]:
['__all__',
'__builtins__',
'__doc__',
'__file__',
'__name__',
'__path__',
'__version__',
'message_from_file',
'message_from_string']

Are you sure that you're getting the right file? Check email.__file__ .

--
Robert Kern
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"In the fields of hell where the grass grows high
Are the graves of dreams allowed to die."
-- Richard Harter

 

[David Bear]

I'm confused about how to use the email module in python 2.4.x

I'm using python packaged with suse 9.3.

From the module documetation at http://docs.python.org/lib/node597.html I

found the following example (items cut):

import email

...
msg = email.message_from_file(fp)
..

Yet, when I try this I get the message

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'message_from_file'

so I dir(email) reveals:

['__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', 'cStringIO', 'email',
'getMessage', 'sys']

This is nothing like the documentation on python.org.

Any idea what I am missing?

That's not what I have on OS X with Python 2.4.1.

In [1]: import email

In [2]: dir(email)
Out[2]:
['__all__',
'__builtins__',
'__doc__',
'__file__',
'__name__',
'__path__',
'__version__',
'message_from_file',
'message_from_string']

Are you sure that you're getting the right file? Check email.__file__ .

never mind. I just discovered my error.