Added a __delitem__ to the Message class.
(Still no __setitem__, until I get a request to add it!)
diff --git a/Lib/rfc822.py b/Lib/rfc822.py
index e6e0696..9d76f6d 100644
--- a/Lib/rfc822.py
+++ b/Lib/rfc822.py
@@ -284,6 +284,28 @@
"""Get a specific header, as from a dictionary."""
return self.dict[string.lower(name)]
+ def __delitem__(self, name):
+ """Delete all occurrences of a specific header, if it is present."""
+ name = string.lower(name)
+ if not self.dict.has_key(name):
+ return
+ del self.dict[name]
+ name = name + ':'
+ n = len(name)
+ list = []
+ hit = 0
+ for i in range(len(self.headers)):
+ line = self.headers[i]
+ if string.lower(line[:n]) == name:
+ hit = 1
+ elif line[:1] not in string.whitespace:
+ hit = 0
+ if hit:
+ list.append(i)
+ list.reverse()
+ for i in list:
+ del self.headers[i]
+
def has_key(self, name):
"""Determine whether a message contains the named header."""
return self.dict.has_key(string.lower(name))