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7. Internet Data Handling

7.1 email -- An email and MIME handling package

7.2 mailcap -- Mailcap file handling.

7.3 mailbox -- Manipulate mailboxes in various formats

7.4 mhlib -- Access to MH mailboxes

7.5 mimetools -- Tools for parsing MIME messages

7.5.1 Additional Methods of Message Objects

7.6 mimetypes -- Map filenames to MIME types

7.7 MimeWriter -- Generic MIME file writer

7.8 mimify -- MIME processing of mail messages

7.9 multifile -- Support for files containing distinct parts

7.10 rfc822 -- Parse RFC 2822 mail headers

7.11 base64 -- RFC 3548: Base16, Base32, Base64 Data Encodings

7.12 binhex -- Encode and decode binhex4 files

7.13 binascii -- Convert between binary and ASCII

7.14 quopri -- Encode and decode MIME quoted-printable data

7.15 uu -- Encode and decode uuencode files

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7.5 `mimetools` -- Tools for parsing MIME messages

Deprecated since release 2.3. The email package should be used in preference to the mimetools module. This module is present only to maintain backward compatibility.

This module defines a subclass of the rfc822 module's 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:

class 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', 'uuencode', 'x-uuencode', 'uue', 'x-uue', '7bit', and '8bit'. Decoding messages encoded in '7bit' or '8bit' has no effect. The input is simply copied to the output.

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 from open file input until EOF 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.