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This module defines a subclass of the class rfc822.Message
and
a number of utility functions that are useful for the manipulation for
MIME style multipart or encoded message.
It defines the following items:
- Message(fp)
-
Return a new instance of the
mimetools.Message
class. This is
a subclass of the rfc822.Message
class, with some additional
methods (see below).
- 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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