This module defines a subclass of the
rfc822.Message class and a number of utility functions that
are useful for the manipulation for MIME multipart or encoded
message.
It defines the following items:
- Message
(fp[, seekable])
- Return a new instance of the Message
class. This is a subclass of the
rfc822.Message class, with some additional methods (see
below). The seekable argument has the same meaning as
for rfc822.Message.
-
choose_boundary ()
- Return a unique string that has a high likelihood of being
usable as a part boundary. The string has the form
'hostipaddr.uid.pid.timestamp.
random'.
- decode
(input, output, encoding)
- Read data encoded using the allowed MIME encoding
from open file object input and write the decoded data
to open file object output. Valid values for
encoding include 'base64',
'quoted-printable' and 'uuencode'.
- encode
(input, output, encoding)
- Read data from open file object input and write it
encoded using the allowed MIME encoding to open file
object output. Valid values for encoding are
the same as for decode().
-
copyliteral (input, output)
- Read lines until EOF from open file input and write
them to open file output.
-
copybinary (input, output)
- Read blocks until EOF from open file input and write
them to open file output. The block size is currently
fixed at 8192.
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