On 2018-07-16, Skip Montanaro <skip.montan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> What are you actually trying to do? You're talking like you're trying >> to read an existing RFC822 email-with-headers from a file, but you're >> showing code that creates a new email with body content set from >> a file, which is a completely different thing. > > Yes, that's exactly what I'm trying to do.
That's not entirely helpful; I said I couldn't tell what you were trying to do, was it (a) or (b), and you've replied "Yes". > A bit more context... I'm trying to port SpamBayes from Python 2 to > Python 3. The file I attached which failed to come through was > exactly what you suggested, an email in a file. That is what the > example from the 3.7 docs suggested I should be able to do If you are actually trying to read an RFC822 message-with-headers from a file, which the above suggests you are, then the example has nothing to do with your situation and as has been suggested you want the email.message_from_binary_file(fp) function (the documentation for which is cunningly hidden near the bottom of https://docs.python.org/3/library/email.parser.html). -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
