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Parse mailto urls in Python

I'm trying to parse mailto URLs into a nice object or dictionary which includes subject, body, etc. I can't seem to find a library or class that achieves this- Do you know of any?

mailto:[email protected]?subject=mysubject&body=mybody
Solution

  • Seems like you might just want to write your own function to do this.

    Edit: Here is a sample function (written by a python noob).

    Edit 2, cleanup do to feedback:

    from urllib import unquote
test_mailto = 'mailto:[email protected]?subject=mysubject&body=mybody'

def parse_mailto(mailto):
   result = dict()
   colon_split = mailto.split(':',1)
   quest_split = colon_split[1].split('?',1)
   result['email'] = quest_split[0]

   for pair in quest_split[1].split('&'):
      name = unquote(pair.split('=')[0])
      value = unquote(pair.split('=')[1])
      result[name] = value

   return result

print parse_mailto(test_mailto)