On Sep 8, 6:23 pm, Rogério Brito <rbr...@ime.usp.br> wrote: > Dear people, > > I am a newbie in Python and I'm just writing a program to rip the HTML parts > of > multipart/alternative e-mails that come with a plain text version. > > For this task, I decided to leave perl aside for this task and tried to code > something in Python using what is already available in the libraries. > > Unfortunately, the program that I coded exhibits a strange problem, even if I > follow what is written on the reference for Python 2.6 (I'm actually running > Debian GNU/Linux on my system, sid, updated daily). > > The strange thing is that I even checked page 500 of "Python Cookbook", by > Alex > Martelli, et. al. and the code in that page is actually quite similar to what > I > wrote. > > I'm attaching the program that I've written here, together with a fake e-mail > that triggers the bug. > > The messages that I get, BTW, are the following: > > #http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/lib/module-email.message.html > #http://docs.python.org/library/email.message.html > # > # Traceback (most recent call last): > # File "test.py", line 8, in <module> > # print msg.as_string(), > # File "/usr/lib/python2.5/email/message.py", line 131, in as_string > # g.flatten(self, unixfrom=unixfrom) > # File "/usr/lib/python2.5/email/generator.py", line 84, in flatten > # self._write(msg) > # File "/usr/lib/python2.5/email/generator.py", line 109, in _write > # self._dispatch(msg) > # File "/usr/lib/python2.5/email/generator.py", line 135, in _dispatch > # meth(msg) > # File "/usr/lib/python2.5/email/generator.py", line 175, in _handle_text > # raise TypeError('string payload expected: %s' % type(payload)) > # TypeError: string payload expected: <type 'list'> > > If anybody could help me with the code, I would be very grateful. Also, if you > can criticize what I wrote, I would be very happy, as I would like to improve > my > Python-fu (which is minimal, unfortunately). > > Thanks in advance, Rogério Brito. > > -- > Rogério Brito : rbr...@{mackenzie,ime.usp}.br : GPG key > 1024D/7C2CAEB8http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito:http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito > Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org > > drop-alternatives.py > 1KViewDownload > > triggers-the-problem.mbx.gz > < 1KViewDownload
You need to modify line 28 to read: body = part.get_payload() ~Sean -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
