Method get

Lib/email/message.py:506–516

Get a header value. Like __getitem__() but return failobj instead of None when the field is missing.

(self, name, failobj=None)

                for k, v in self._headers]

    def get(self, name, failobj=None):
        """Get a header value.

        Like __getitem__() but return failobj instead of None when the field
        is missing.
        """
        name = name.lower()
        for k, v in self._headers:
            if k.lower() == name:
                return self.policy.header_fetch_parse(k, v)
        return failobj

    #
    # "Internal" methods (public API, but only intended for use by a parser