Robert Kern wrote: > David Bear wrote: >> I'm confused about how to use the email module in python 2.4.x >> >> I'm using python packaged with suse 9.3. >> >>>From the module documetation at http://docs.python.org/lib/node597.html I >> found the following example (items cut): >> >> import email >> >> ... >> msg = email.message_from_file(fp) >> .. >> >> Yet, when I try this I get the message >> >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? >> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'message_from_file' >> >> so I dir(email) reveals: >> >> ['__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', 'cStringIO', 'email', >> 'getMessage', 'sys'] >> >> This is nothing like the documentation on python.org. >> >> Any idea what I am missing? > > That's not what I have on OS X with Python 2.4.1. > > In [1]: import email > > In [2]: dir(email) > Out[2]: > ['__all__', > '__builtins__', > '__doc__', > '__file__', > '__name__', > '__path__', > '__version__', > 'message_from_file', > 'message_from_string'] > > Are you sure that you're getting the right file? Check email.__file__ . >
never mind. I just discovered my error. -- David Bear -- let me buy your intellectual property, I want to own your thoughts -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
