get date from email

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From	Thomas Guettler <hv@tbz-pariv.de>
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Subject	get date from email
Date	Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:25:02 +0100
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Hi,

up to now I use this code to parse date values from emails:

msg=email.message_from_file(open(file_name))
date=None
date_str=msg.get('date')
if date_str:
    date_tuple=email.utils.parsedate_tz(date_str)
    if date_tuple:
        date=datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(email.utils.mktime_tz(date_tuple))
if date:
    ... # valid date found


Somehow this looks too complicated. Any chance to integrate the datetime module into the email module?

related: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1790795/python-parsing-date-with-timezone-from-an-email

-- 
Thomas Guettler, http://www.thomas-guettler.de/
E-Mail: guettli (*) thomas-guettler + de

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