from email.MIMEBase import MIMEBase
from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
import mimetypes

#filename = 'MimebaseError.py'
filename = 'test.eml'
    
def main():
    mimetype = mimetypes.guess_type(filename)[0]
    print mimetype
    maintype, subtype = mimetype.split('/')
    attachment = MIMEBase(maintype, subtype)
    attachment.set_payload(file(filename).read( ))
    #attachment.get_payload()
    #attachment.get_payload(0)
    print attachment


main()