[FIXED] mimetools.Message() to python 3 email.message.Message

Issue

I try to port a python 2.x code to python 3. The line im struggeling with is

from mimetools import Message
...
headers = Message(StringIO(data.split('\r\n', 1)[1]))

i have figured out that mimetools are no longer present in python 3 and that the replacement is the email class. I tried out to replace it like this:

headers = email.message_from_file(io.StringIO(data.split('\r\n', 1)[1]))

but with that i get this error:

    headers = email.message_from_file(io.StringIO(data.split('\r\n', 1)[1]))
TypeError: Type str doesn't support the buffer API

i am searching for an hint to do this porting from mimetools to email correct. The original code is not from me. It can be found here : https://gist.github.com/jkp/3136208

Solution

Alex's own solution from his comment:

import email
stream = io.StringIO() 
rxString = data.decode("utf-8").split('\r\n', 1)[1]
stream.write(rxString) 
headers = email.message_from_string(rxString)

Answered By - Alojz Janez