Getting mail attachment to python file object

Question

I have got an email multipart message object, and I want to convert the attachment in that email message into python file object. Is this possible? If it is possible, what m

Answer 1

Here is working solution, messages are form IMAP server

self.imap.select()
typ, data = self.imap.uid('SEARCH', 'ALL')
msgs = data[0].split()
print "Found {0} msgs".format(len(msgs))

for uid in msgs:
    typ, s = self.imap.uid('FETCH', uid, '(RFC822)')
    mail = email.message_from_string(s[0][1])

    print "From: {0}, Subject: {1}, Date: {2}\n".format(mail["From"], mail["Subject"], mail["Date"])

    if mail.is_multipart():
        print 'multipart'
        for part in mail.walk():
            ctype = part.get_content_type()
            if ctype in ['image/jpeg', 'image/png']:
                open(part.get_filename(), 'wb').write(part.get_payload(decode=True))