environment/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/zmq/session.py
def extract_header(msg_or_header):
    """Given a message or header, return the header."""
    if not msg_or_header:
        return {}
    try:
        # See if msg_or_header is the entire message.
        h = msg_or_header['header']
    except KeyError:
        try:
            # See if msg_or_header is just the header
            h = msg_or_header['msg_id']
        except KeyError:
            raise
        else:
            h = msg_or_header
    if not isinstance(h, dict):
        h = dict(h)
    return h
def extract_header(msg_or_header):
    """Given a message or header, return the header."""
    if not msg_or_header:
        return {}
    try:
        # See if msg_or_header is the entire message.
        h = msg_or_header['header']
    except KeyError:
        try:
            # See if msg_or_header is just the header
            h = msg_or_header['msg_id']
        except KeyError:
            raise
        else:
            h = msg_or_header
    if not isinstance(h, dict):
        h = dict(h)
    return h
Given a message or header, return the header.