[Gllug] Python and Debian Sarge

[Richard Cohen]

On Wed, 5 May 2004, Simon Perry wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have been using an example program[0] from the Pyhthon Library
> Reference[1] to split email messages into their respective parts. On my
> original system, running Debian Woody, the text part of any email passed
> to the script would be correctly identified and given a .text extension.
> However on my new system, running Debian Sarge, the text part seems to
> be identified as a shell script and is given a .ksh extension. Anyone
> got an idea why this is happening and how I can fix it?

Without having a clue as to the Debian situation, I'd guess your problem
comes from these lines in the script:
ext = mimetypes.guess_extension(part.get_type())
if not ext:
    # Use a generic bag-of-bits extension
    ext = '.bin'

Have a look at /etc/mime.types and/or ~/.mime.types and see if there's
something in one of them which maps text/plain files to extension ksh - I
don't think the mimetypes file is really mean to be used in that direction.
Files which end in .ksh are almost certainly plain/text files, but
plain/text files are very probably *not* ksh scripts :-)

> TIA
>
> Simon
>
> [0] http://docs.python.org/lib/email-unpack.txt
> [1] http://docs.python.org/lib/node510.html

Cheers
Richard
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