Get From Address from message_from_string() in Python

Question

Can someone please tell me how to get the from address from email.message_from_string() in Python? Thanks! I tried

message = email.message_from_string(email_text)
from = message['From']

However, that did not seem to work.

Here is the email I am parsing:

MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <15669247.20130725035929.51f0a2a1834095.64964363@mail333.us4.mandrillapp.com>
References: <15669247.20130725035929.51f0a2a1834095.64964363@mail333.us4.mandrillapp.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 11:16:50 -0400
Message-ID: <CAND88j9txyLT7YOqcrSoRYZ9-SDHaCwBsc-ZNR_1+iYPrM0N5w@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: New message regarding your stay on 2013-06-19 to 2013-06-29 at
 the The Marriot <SRID2>
From: Taylor Lovett <[email protected]>
To: Taylor Lovett <[email protected]>
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=f46d04218485a0ea0404e27fbf5b

--f46d04218485a0ea0404e27fbf5b
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Test email!

--f46d04218485a0ea0404e27fbf5b
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

Martijn Pieters · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-27 15:33:00Z

6

from is a reserved keyword. Use a different variable name. Your code otherwise works fine:

>>> import email
>>> message = email.message_from_string(email_text)
>>> message['From']
'Taylor Lovett <[email protected]>'
>>> from = message['From']
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    from = message['From']
         ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> from_address = message['From']
>>> from_address
'Taylor Lovett <[email protected]>'

answered Jul 27, 2013 at 15:33

Martijn Pieters

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