On 25/06/21 7:06 am, Chris Green wrote:
In python 2 one can do:-
for msg in maildir:
print msg # or whatever you want to do with the message
However in python 3 this produces "TypeError: string argument
expected, got 'bytes'".
How should one iterate over a maildir in python3?
You're already iterating over it just fine. Your problem is
actually how to *print* a mail message.
The answer to this will depend on what your purpose is. If
you just want a rough-and-ready idea of what the message
contains, you could do this:
print(repr(msg))
However, that won't work very well if the message doesn't
consist of mostly text in an ASCII-compatible encoding.
If you want something better, Python comes with some standard
library code for dealing with mail messages. Check out the
'email' module.
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