How to read eml file in python?

Question

I do not known how to load a eml file in python 3.4.
I want to list all and read all of them in python.

Answer 1

Posting this here for anyone looking to just extract text from an email and get a list of .eml files - took me forever to find a good answer to this online. NOTE: This will not get attachments to emails, just the text from email.

import email
from email import policy
from email.parser import BytesParser
import glob
import os

path = '/path/to/data/' # set this to "./" if in current directory

eml_files = glob.glob(path + '*.eml') # get all .eml files in a list
for eml_file in eml_files:
    with open(eml_file, 'rb') as fp:  # select a specific email file from the list
        name = fp.name # Get file name
        msg = BytesParser(policy=policy.default).parse(fp)
    text = msg.get_body(preferencelist=('plain')).get_content()
    fp.close()
 
    text = text.split("\n")
    print (name) # Get name of eml file
    print (text) # Get list of all text in email

Credit to some of the code from this post: Reading .eml files with Python 3.6 using emaildata 0.3.4