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:mod:`email`: Iterators
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.. module:: email.iterators
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:synopsis: Iterate over a message object tree.
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Iterating over a message object tree is fairly easy with the
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:meth:`Message.walk` method. The :mod:`email.iterators` module provides some
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useful higher level iterations over message object trees.
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.. function:: body_line_iterator(msg[, decode])
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This iterates over all the payloads in all the subparts of *msg*, returning the
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string payloads line-by-line. It skips over all the subpart headers, and it
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skips over any subpart with a payload that isn't a Python string. This is
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somewhat equivalent to reading the flat text representation of the message from
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a file using :meth:`readline`, skipping over all the intervening headers.
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Optional *decode* is passed through to :meth:`Message.get_payload`.
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.. function:: typed_subpart_iterator(msg[, maintype[, subtype]])
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This iterates over all the subparts of *msg*, returning only those subparts that
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match the MIME type specified by *maintype* and *subtype*.
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Note that *subtype* is optional; if omitted, then subpart MIME type matching is
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done only with the main type. *maintype* is optional too; it defaults to
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:mimetype:`text`.
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Thus, by default :func:`typed_subpart_iterator` returns each subpart that has a
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MIME type of :mimetype:`text/\*`.
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The following function has been added as a useful debugging tool. It should
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*not* be considered part of the supported public interface for the package.
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.. function:: _structure(msg[, fp[, level]])
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Prints an indented representation of the content types of the message object
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structure. For example::
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>>> msg = email.message_from_file(somefile)
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>>> _structure(msg)
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multipart/mixed
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text/plain
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text/plain
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multipart/digest
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message/rfc822
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text/plain
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message/rfc822
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text/plain
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message/rfc822
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text/plain
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message/rfc822
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text/plain
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message/rfc822
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text/plain
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text/plain
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Optional *fp* is a file-like object to print the output to. It must be suitable
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for Python's extended print statement. *level* is used internally.
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