Parsing “From” addresses from email text

Question

I\'m trying to extract email addresses from plain text transcripts of emails. I\'ve cobbled together a bit of code to find the addresses themselves, but I don\'t know how to mak

Answer 1

Try this out:

>>> from email.utils import parseaddr

>>> parseaddr('From: vg@m.com')
('', 'vg@m.com')

>>> parseaddr('From: Van Gale ')
('Van Gale', 'vg@m.com')

>>> parseaddr('    From: Van Gale    ')
('Van Gale', 'vg@m.com')

>>> parseaddr('blah abdf    From: Van Gale    and this')
('Van Gale', 'vg@m.com')

Unfortunately it only finds the first email in each line because it's expecting header lines, but maybe that's ok?