Question

    self.logger.info(msg)     popinstance=poplib.POP3(self.account[0])     self.logger.info(popinstance.getwelcome())     popinstance.user(self.account[1])     popinstance.pass_(self.account[2])     try:         (numMsgs, totalSize)=popinstance.stat()         self.logger.info('POP contains ' + str(numMsgs) + ' emails')         for thisNum in xrange(1, numMsgs + 1):             try:                 (server_msg, body, octets)=popinstance.retr(thisNum)             except:                 self.logger.error('Could not download email')                 raise             text='\n'.join(body)             mesg=StringIO.StringIO(text)             msg=rfc822.Message(mesg)             MessageID=email.Utils.parseaddr(msg['Message-ID'])[1]             self.logger.info('downloading email ' + MessageID)             emailpath=os.path.join(self._emailpath + self._inboxfolder + '\\' + self._sanitize_string(MessageID  + '.eml'))             emailpath=self._replace_whitespace(emailpath)             try:                 self._dual_dump(text,emailpath)             except:                 pass             self.logger.info(popinstance.dele(thisNum))     finally:         self.logger.info(popinstance.quit()) 

(server_msg, body, octets)=popinstance.retr(thisNum) returns =20 in the body of the email when the email contains chinese characters.

How do I handle this?

raw text of email:

Subject: (B/L:4363-0192-809.015) SI FOR 15680XXXX436

=20

Dear

=20

SI ENCLOSED

PLS SEND US THE BL DRAFT AND DEBIT NOTE

=20

TKS

=20

MYRI

—– Original Message —–=20

Answer 1

It is probably a Space character encoded in quoted-printable