Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.137 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.73; '*S*': 0.00; 'skip:e 50': 0.05; 'subject:subject': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'help.': 0.21; 'header :User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'instead.': 0.24; 'skip:e 30': 0.24; 'question': 0.24; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'code': 0.31; 'writes:': 0.31; 'subject:the': 0.34; 'something': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'subject:?': 0.36; 'similar': 0.36; 'received:10': 0.37; 'message-id:@gmail.com': 0.38; 'to:addr :python-list': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'skip:p 20': 0.39; 'how': 0.40; 'john': 0.61; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.65; 'subject': 0.69; 'subject:get': 0.81; 'yours.': 0.93 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=2B1EOShNCkWUDu1kRKUKAnw9zLTuC74zEdD0jjtPYWk=; b=z+qASDZ+ufsYrqDOBJVfgDy6a66RIj3nDtQ1zRhp4LmnUYzIPL12Afv7i0gi7lU//b CTeuqc48Yiupj5J6vOn56GQSZ/wimcReuTLnz/K59zBeHxsI9qEWKWfaTECf0aWO+xGG SvW/BYM5tOI8lffZRl2eHHor8lxZWYbTPCvIvQEsU5wiSQxbOJJ7bMf2/e0lWC34+ynw gE1b/zq8AU/6nOQJG8cCjk1wWHF8lry2RE/ZhB6plsSnpHkejRTBLFaO9goWSFqAe1m/ 4TwQd9SjQslFamMOYwSvK5TxLRl6ewtTzS/eFv1UvD0QvMcUZ+p9ybyZyTZxEAVnFVCO hCXA== X-Received: by 10.70.140.13 with SMTP id rc13mr662220pdb.127.1407649049210; Sat, 09 Aug 2014 22:37:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 22:37:22 -0700 From: luofeiyu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: how to get the subject of email? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 22 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1407649058 news.xs4all.nl 2886 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:36267 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:75968 message = email.message_from_bytes(text) I get it , print(message['Subject']) #can get the subject But how can i get the body content of message? no , message['Body'] or message['Content'] On 8/9/2014 7:01 PM, John Gordon wrote: > In luofeiyu 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. >