1# Import the email modules we'll need 2from email.parser import Parser 3 4# If the e-mail headers are in a file, uncomment this line: 5#headers = Parser().parse(open(messagefile, 'r')) 6 7# Or for parsing headers in a string, use: 8headers = Parser().parsestr('From: <user@example.com>\n' 9 'To: <someone_else@example.com>\n' 10 'Subject: Test message\n' 11 '\n' 12 'Body would go here\n') 13 14# Now the header items can be accessed as a dictionary: 15print 'To: %s' % headers['to'] 16print 'From: %s' % headers['from'] 17print 'Subject: %s' % headers['subject'] 18