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From: John Gordon <gordon@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: how to get the subject of email?
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 02:01:06 +0000 (UTC)
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In <mailman.12805.1407635303.18130.python-list@python.org> luofeiyu <elearn2014@gmail.com> writes:

> message = email.message_from_string(str(text)).get('subject')
> message  # nothing displayed

Try using email.message_from_bytes() instead.

Also have a look at
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19508393/python-email-parsing-issue
for a question very similar to yours.  Perhaps something in the code
will help.

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