title: Python : How to parse the Body from a raw email , given that raw email does not have a "Body" tag or anything
body: <p>It seems easy to get the </p>
  
  <pre><code>From
  To
  Subject
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>etc via</p>
  
  <pre><code>import email
  b = email.message_from_string(a)
  bbb = b['from']
  ccc = b['to']
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>assuming that <code>"a"</code> is the raw-email string which looks something like this.</p>
  
  <pre><code>a = """From root@a1.local.tld Thu Jul 25 19:28:59 2013
  Received: from a1.local.tld (localhost [127.0.0.1])
      by a1.local.tld (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r6Q2SxeQ003866
      for &lt;ooo@a1.local.tld&gt;; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:28:59 -0700
  Received: (from root@localhost)
      by a1.local.tld (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id r6Q2Sxbh003865;
      Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:28:59 -0700
  From: root@a1.local.tld
  Subject: oooooooooooooooo
  To: ooo@a1.local.tld
  Cc: 
  X-Originating-IP: 192.168.15.127
  X-Mailer: Webmin 1.420
  Message-Id: &lt;1374805739.3861@a1&gt;
  Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:28:59 -0700 (PDT)
  MIME-Version: 1.0
  Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="bound1374805739"
  
  This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
  
  --bound1374805739
  Content-Type: text/plain
  Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
  
  ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
  ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
  ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
  
  --bound1374805739--"""
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>THE QUESTION</strong></p>
  
  <p>how do you get the <code>Body</code> of this email via python ?</p>
  
  <p>So far this is the only code i am aware of but i have yet to test it.</p>
  
  <pre><code>if email.is_multipart():
      for part in email.get_payload():
          print part.get_payload()
  else:
      print email.get_payload()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>is this the correct way ?</p>
  
  <p>or maybe there is something simpler such as...</p>
  
  <pre><code>import email
  b = email.message_from_string(a)
  bbb = b['body']
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>?</p>