On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:47 PM, <jne...@neisskids.org> wrote: > Hi, all; > > I am a longtime linux sysadmin that is fairly new to Python. I've got a > project for which Python seems to be perfect (or, at least, I've found a > way to integrate my learning :-)
Welcome to Python! I highly recommend this book by Noah Gift: http://www.amazon.com/Python-Unix-Linux-System-Administration/dp/0596515820 It seems like it's right up your alley! > I receive log files via email from an outside vendor. We use Splunk to > generate reports based on these and other logs. At the moment, pulling > the emailed logs into Splunk is done by hand--open the email, save the > attachment, read the file in. I'd like to automate it, and procmail + a > script is the easiest way. I've found perl scripts that supposedly pull > MIME-encoded attachments, but not being a perl guy, I'm trying to use > Python instead. > > I have the following script--cobbled together from Internet searches, the > Python cookbook, and hand-written lines: > > #! /usr/bin/env python > > import email.Parser > import os, sys > def main(argv = sys.argv): > if not sys.stdin.isatty(): > for m in sys.stdin.readlines(): > p = email.Parser.Parser() > msg = p.parse(m) > Here's basically where the problem is - m is a string. From the docs (I use ipython - in the regular python prompt you'd say >>> help(p.parse): In [3]: p.parse? Type: instancemethod Base Class: <type 'instancemethod'> String Form: <bound method Parser.parse of <email.parser.Parser instance at 0x92ffa8c>> Namespace: Interactive File: /usr/lib/python2.6/email/parser.py Definition: p.parse(self, fp, headersonly=False) Docstring: Create a message structure from the data in a file. Reads all the data from the file and returns the root of the message structure. Optional headersonly is a flag specifying whether to stop parsing after reading the headers or not. The default is False, meaning it parses the entire contents of the file. So parse is looking for a file - the fp parameter. > <snip> > Any ideas? What am I doing wrong? > > I'm using Python 2.4.3 on Red Hat ES 5.3, if it matters. > > See if you can figure it out from there - if you get further, and get stuck again, let us know! HTH, Wayne p.s. bonus points for posting the Traceback. A bit of explanation (read from bottom to top) File "./mail_extract.py", line 32, in ? <----- The main block where it was called main(sys.argv) File "./mail_extract.py", line 12, in main <-------- This is where the next line was called msg = p.parse(mailfile) File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/email/Parser.py", line 65, in parse <--- Tells you where the original error was (usually) data = fp.read(8192) AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'read' <--------- Really important, tells you what went wrong
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