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Parse email address only without name

When using Email library, is there a way to get the internet email address without the name, so for "Jon Doe"<[email protected]>, how can I just get [email protected].

I am loading a mime message from file with email.message_from_binary_file() and then getting the FROM header by accessing the "from" key:

message = email.message_from_binary_file()
from_header = message["from"]

I can't seem to find in Email docs how I can parse this down further to just the email address?

EDIT: Current solution that I don't think is very elegant and might be error-prone is to do a regex likes so:

from_header = re.findall('\S+@\S+', message["from"])[0][1:-1]

So get the first (and only) element from regex list and then remove the opening and closing brackets ("<" & ">")

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