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Created November 29, 2011 22:36
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extract first number from an email
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enfe.py
import email
import re
e = '''
some string with full email contents
'''
msg = email.message_from_string(e)
body = msg.get_payload()
n = re.search(r'\d+', body, re.MULTILINE)
print n.group()
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