script to get text of the email email in python

main.py
import imaplib
import email

mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com')
mail.login('your_email@gmail.com', 'your_password')
mail.select('inbox')

result, data = mail.search(None, 'ALL')

ids = data[0]  # list of emails
id_list = ids.split()

latest_email_id = id_list[-1]
result, data = mail.fetch(latest_email_id, "(RFC822)")

raw_email = data[0][1]
email_message = email.message_from_bytes(raw_email)

#to get the text of the email, traverse the payload of the email
def getText(email_message_instance):
    payload = email_message_instance.get_payload()
    if isinstance(payload, list):
        return '\n'.join([getText(subpart) for subpart in payload])
    else:
        return payload

email_text = getText(email_message)

print(email_text)
748 chars
30 lines