> What do you actually think > > ... for m in msg: > ... print m > > should do? Why do you believe that what you think it should do would be > a natural choice?
I needed to know how to extract particular parts of a message, such as the message 'body', 'subject', 'author', etc. I couldn't find it in the documentation this kind of information until I ran the inspect.getmembers(msg) and found out that the message body stored in _payload. that is msg._payload is the content of the message. Regarding the *bug* thing it is very simple. If you iterate an int you get an exception <TypeError: 'int' object is not iterable>, clear enough. Yet here I got the following exception <AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'lower'> which suggest an attempt to iterate ---. I do think that a message should support iteration for the very fact that each can contain a different type and amount of headers, and iteration in this case will make application's code clean and unified. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
