[Zope] Python Question

[Andrew Veitch]

> first last <flast at domain.com>
> 
> How can I extract all of the text up to but not including the < and assign
> to a new variable?

You should use parseaddr from the excellent email library see:

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-email.Utils.html

The advantage of using the utility rather than slicing the string yourself
is that there's always a case with email that you haven't thought about.

If you're using an older Python you may need to download the email library
from http://www.python.org/sigs/email-sig/

A

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