The Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) standard defines how to store non-ASCII text, images, and other data in RFC 822-style messages.
The mimetools
module, shown in Example 6-3, contains a number of tools for writing programs that read
or write MIME messages. Among other things, it contains a version of
the rfc822
module’s Message
class, which knows a bit more about MIME encoded messages.
Example 6-3. Using the mimetools Module
File: mimetools-example-1.py import mimetools file = open("samples/sample.msg") msg = mimetools.Message(file) print "type", "=>", msg.gettype() print "encoding", "=>", msg.getencoding() print "plist", "=>", msg.getplist() print "header", "=>" for k, v in msg.items(): print " ", k, "=", vtype => text/plain
encoding => 7bit
plist => ['charset="iso-8859-1"']
header =>
mime-version = 1.0
content-type = text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
to = [email protected]
date = Fri, 15 Oct 1999 03:21:15 -0400
content-transfer-encoding = 7bit
from = "Fredrik Lundh" <[email protected]>
subject = By the way...
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