Parsing multiple “msg” files and storing the body text in a csv file

问题

a python Newbie here. I am currently trying to figure out how to parse all the msg files I have stored in a specific folder and then save the body text to a csv file.

import win32com.client
outlook = win32com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application").GetNamespace("MAPI")

msg = outlook.OpenSharedItem(r"C:\Users\XY\Documents\Email Reader\test.msg")


print(msg.Body)

del outlook, msg

So far, I only found a way to open one specific msg file, but not all the files I stored in my folder. I think I should be able to handle storing the data in a csv file, but I just can't figure out how to read multiple msg files. Hope you can help me!

cheers

回答1:

You can try something like this to iterate through every file with '.msg' extension in a directory:

import os

pathname = os.fsencode('Pathname as string')

for file in os.listdir(pathname):
    filename = os.fsdecode(file)
    if filename.endswith(".msg"):
        #Do something
        continue
    else:
        continue

Hope this helps!

回答2:

You can use pathlib to iterate over the contents of the directory.
Try this:

from pathlib import Path
import win32com.client

outlook = win32com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application").GetNamespace("MAPI")

# Assuming \Documents\Email Reader is the directory containg files
for p in Path(r'C:\Users\XY\Documents\Email Reader').iterdir():
    if p.is_file() and p.suffix == '.msg':
        msg = outlook.OpenSharedItem(p)
        print(msg.Body)

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52608069/parsing-multiple-msg-files-and-storing-the-body-text-in-a-csv-file

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