python-mms Code

#!/usr/bin/env python

""" Simple script showing how to use the python-mms library to decode a binary
MMS message file and display textual information about it.

This script does not actually dump the contents of binary data parts (such as
images and audio clips), but shows how it can be done.

@author: Francois Aucamp <faucamp@csir.co.za>
@license: GNU LGPL
"""

import sys
# import the python-mms library
import mms

if __name__ == '__main__':
    if len(sys.argv) != 2:
        print 'Usage: %s MMS_FILE' % sys.argv[0]
        sys.exit(1)

    # Decode the specified file
    message = mms.MMSMessage.fromFile(sys.argv[1])
    
    # Dump header information
    print 'MMS header information:\n------------------------'
    for hdr in message.headers:
        value = message.headers[hdr]
        if type(value) == tuple:
            print '%s: %s' % (hdr, str(value[0]))
            if len(value[1]) > 0:
                parameters = value[1]
                print '   parameters:'
                for param in parameters:
                    print '      %s: %s' % (param, parameters[param])
        else:
            print '%s: %s' % (hdr, str(message.headers[hdr]))
        
    # Dump message body information
    print '\nMMS body information:\n----------------------'
    print 'Number of pages in message: %d' % len(message.pages)
    print 'Number of data parts in message: %d' % len(message.dataParts)

    counter = 0
    for part in message.dataParts:
        counter += 1
        print '\n  Data part #%d\n  ------------' % counter 
        for hdr in part.headers:
            value = part.headers[hdr]
            if type(value) == tuple:
                print '  %s: %s' % (hdr, str(value[0]))
                if len(value[1]) > 0:
                    parameters = value[1]
                    for param in parameters:
                        print '     %s: %s' % (param, parameters[param])
            else:
                print '  %s: %s' % (hdr, str(part.headers[hdr]))
        print '  Data length: %d bytes' % len(part)
        # In this exxample, we only print the data of text-based data parts
        if part.contentType.startswith('text/'):
            print '  Contents:'
            print '  "%s"' % part.data