Message instance has no attribute 'is_multipar

Question

I am trying to write a script that gets me the contents of all the Mails in ~/Maildir. So I basically copypasted code from this question. Here is the full content of mailbox.py:

import mailbox
maildir = mailbox.Maildir("~/Maildir");
for message in maildir:
    print message["subject"]
    if message.is_multipart():
        print "ok"

It does print the subject of the first message, but instead of printing "ok" then, it dies stating

AttributeError: Message instance has no attribute 'is_multipart'

What did I do wrong?

Answer 1

You have forgotten to name your Python version so let me guess — it's Python 2.7, right? In Python 2.7 mailbox.Maildir by default returns instances of rfc822.Messages, not email.Messages; rfc822.Message has a completely different API.

If you want mailbox.Maildir to return email.Messages remove default factory:

maildir = mailbox.Maildir("~/Maildir", factory=None)

In Python 3 rfc822.Message was removed so mailbox.Maildir returns email.Messages by default.