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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>18.6. mimetools β Tools for parsing MIME messages — Python 2.7.16 documentation</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../_static/classic.css" type="text/css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../_static/pygments.css" type="text/css" /> <script type="text/javascript" id="documentation_options" data-url_root="../" src="../_static/documentation_options.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/jquery.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/underscore.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/doctools.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/sidebar.js"></script> <link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" title="Search within Python 2.7.16 documentation" href="../_static/opensearch.xml"/> <link rel="author" title="About these documents" href="../about.html" /> <link rel="index" title="Index" href="../genindex.html" /> <link rel="search" title="Search" href="../search.html" /> <link rel="copyright" title="Copyright" href="../copyright.html" /> <link rel="next" title="18.7. mimetypes β Map filenames to MIME types" href="mimetypes.html" /> <link rel="prev" title="18.5. mhlib β Access to MH mailboxes" href="mhlib.html" /> <link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="../_static/py.png" /> <link rel="canonical" href="https://docs.python.org/2/library/mimetools.html" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/copybutton.js"></script> </head><body> <div class="related" role="navigation" aria-label="related navigation"> <h3>Navigation</h3> <ul> <li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px"> <a href="../genindex.html" title="General Index" accesskey="I">index</a></li> <li class="right" > <a href="../py-modindex.html" title="Python Module Index" >modules</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="mimetypes.html" title="18.7. mimetypes β Map filenames to MIME types" accesskey="N">next</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="mhlib.html" title="18.5. mhlib β Access to MH mailboxes" accesskey="P">previous</a> |</li> <li><img src="../_static/py.png" alt="" style="vertical-align: middle; margin-top: -1px"/></li> <li><a href="https://www.python.org/">Python</a> »</li> <li> <a href="../index.html">Python 2.7.16 documentation</a> » </li> <li class="nav-item nav-item-1"><a href="index.html" >The Python Standard Library</a> »</li> <li class="nav-item nav-item-2"><a href="netdata.html" accesskey="U">18. Internet Data Handling</a> »</li> </ul> </div> <div class="document"> <div class="documentwrapper"> <div class="bodywrapper"> <div class="body" role="main"> <div class="section" id="module-mimetools"> <span id="mimetools-tools-for-parsing-mime-messages"></span><h1>18.6. <a class="reference internal" href="#module-mimetools" title="mimetools: Tools for parsing MIME-style message bodies. (deprecated)"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mimetools</span></code></a> β Tools for parsing MIME messages<a class="headerlink" href="#module-mimetools" title="Permalink to this headline">ΒΆ</a></h1> <div class="deprecated"> <p><span class="versionmodified">Deprecated since version 2.3: </span>The <a class="reference internal" href="email.html#module-email" title="email: Package supporting the parsing, manipulating, and generating email messages, including MIME documents."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">email</span></code></a> package should be used in preference to the <a class="reference internal" href="#module-mimetools" title="mimetools: Tools for parsing MIME-style message bodies. (deprecated)"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mimetools</span></code></a> module. This module is present only to maintain backward compatibility, and it has been removed in 3.x.</p> </div> <p id="index-0">This module defines a subclass of the <a class="reference internal" href="rfc822.html#module-rfc822" title="rfc822: Parse 2822 style mail messages. (deprecated)"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">rfc822</span></code></a> moduleβs <a class="reference internal" href="#mimetools.Message" title="mimetools.Message"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Message</span></code></a> class and a number of utility functions that are useful for the manipulation for MIME multipart or encoded message.</p> <p>It defines the following items:</p> <dl class="class"> <dt id="mimetools.Message"> <em class="property">class </em><code class="descclassname">mimetools.</code><code class="descname">Message</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>fp</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>seekable</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#mimetools.Message" title="Permalink to this definition">ΒΆ</a></dt> <dd><p>Return a new instance of the <a class="reference internal" href="#mimetools.Message" title="mimetools.Message"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Message</span></code></a> class. This is a subclass of the <a class="reference internal" href="rfc822.html#rfc822.Message" title="rfc822.Message"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">rfc822.Message</span></code></a> class, with some additional methods (see below). The <em>seekable</em> argument has the same meaning as for <a class="reference internal" href="rfc822.html#rfc822.Message" title="rfc822.Message"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">rfc822.Message</span></code></a>.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="function"> <dt id="mimetools.choose_boundary"> <code class="descclassname">mimetools.</code><code class="descname">choose_boundary</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#mimetools.choose_boundary" title="Permalink to this definition">ΒΆ</a></dt> <dd><p>Return a unique string that has a high likelihood of being usable as a part boundary. The string has the form <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'hostipaddr.uid.pid.timestamp.random'</span></code>.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="function"> <dt id="mimetools.decode"> <code class="descclassname">mimetools.</code><code class="descname">decode</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>input</em>, <em>output</em>, <em>encoding</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#mimetools.decode" title="Permalink to this definition">ΒΆ</a></dt> <dd><p>Read data encoded using the allowed MIME <em>encoding</em> from open file object <em>input</em> and write the decoded data to open file object <em>output</em>. Valid values for <em>encoding</em> include <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'base64'</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'quoted-printable'</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'uuencode'</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'x-uuencode'</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'uue'</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'x-uue'</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'7bit'</span></code>, and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'8bit'</span></code>. Decoding messages encoded in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'7bit'</span></code> or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'8bit'</span></code> has no effect. The input is simply copied to the output.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="function"> <dt id="mimetools.encode"> <code class="descclassname">mimetools.</code><code class="descname">encode</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>input</em>, <em>output</em>, <em>encoding</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#mimetools.encode" title="Permalink to this definition">ΒΆ</a></dt> <dd><p>Read data from open file object <em>input</em> and write it encoded using the allowed MIME <em>encoding</em> to open file object <em>output</em>. Valid values for <em>encoding</em> are the same as for <a class="reference internal" href="#mimetools.decode" title="mimetools.decode"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">decode()</span></code></a>.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="function"> <dt id="mimetools.copyliteral"> <code class="descclassname">mimetools.</code><code class="descname">copyliteral</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>input</em>, <em>output</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#mimetools.copyliteral" title="Permalink to this definition">ΒΆ</a></dt> <dd><p>Read lines from open file <em>input</em> until EOF and write them to open file <em>output</em>.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="function"> <dt id="mimetools.copybinary"> <code class="descclassname">mimetools.</code><code class="descname">copybinary</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>input</em>, <em>output</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#mimetools.copybinary" title="Permalink to this definition">ΒΆ</a></dt> <dd><p>Read blocks until EOF from open file <em>input</em> and write them to open file <em>output</em>. The block size is currently fixed at 8192.</p> </dd></dl> <div class="admonition seealso"> <p class="first admonition-title">See also</p> <dl class="last docutils"> <dt>Module <a class="reference internal" href="email.html#module-email" title="email: Package supporting the parsing, manipulating, and generating email messages, including MIME documents."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">email</span></code></a></dt> <dd>Comprehensive email handling package; supersedes the <a class="reference internal" href="#module-mimetools" title="mimetools: Tools for parsing MIME-style message bodies. (deprecated)"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mimetools</span></code></a> module.</dd> <dt>Module <a class="reference internal" href="rfc822.html#module-rfc822" title="rfc822: Parse 2822 style mail messages. (deprecated)"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">rfc822</span></code></a></dt> <dd>Provides the base class for <a class="reference internal" href="#mimetools.Message" title="mimetools.Message"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mimetools.Message</span></code></a>.</dd> <dt>Module <a class="reference internal" href="multifile.html#module-multifile" title="multifile: Support for reading files which contain distinct parts, such as some MIME data. (deprecated)"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">multifile</span></code></a></dt> <dd>Support for reading files which contain distinct parts, such as MIME data.</dd> <dt><a class="reference external" href="http://faqs.cs.uu.nl/na-dir/mail/mime-faq/.html">http://faqs.cs.uu.nl/na-dir/mail/mime-faq/.html</a></dt> <dd>The MIME Frequently Asked Questions document. For an overview of MIME, see the answer to question 1.1 in Part 1 of this document.</dd> </dl> </div> <div class="section" id="additional-methods-of-message-objects"> <span id="mimetools-message-objects"></span><h2>18.6.1. Additional Methods of Message Objects<a class="headerlink" href="#additional-methods-of-message-objects" title="Permalink to this headline">ΒΆ</a></h2> <p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#mimetools.Message" title="mimetools.Message"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Message</span></code></a> class defines the following methods in addition to the <a class="reference internal" href="rfc822.html#rfc822.Message" title="rfc822.Message"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">rfc822.Message</span></code></a> methods:</p> <dl class="method"> <dt id="mimetools.Message.getplist"> <code class="descclassname">Message.</code><code class="descname">getplist</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#mimetools.Message.getplist" title="Permalink to this definition">ΒΆ</a></dt> <dd><p>Return the parameter list of the <em class="mailheader">Content-Type</em> header. This is a list of strings. For parameters of the form <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">key=value</span></code>, <em>key</em> is converted to lower case but <em>value</em> is not. For example, if the message contains the header <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Content-type:</span> <span class="pre">text/html;</span> <span class="pre">spam=1;</span> <span class="pre">Spam=2;</span> <span class="pre">Spam</span></code> then <a class="reference internal" href="#mimetools.Message.getplist" title="mimetools.Message.getplist"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">getplist()</span></code></a> will return the Python list <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">['spam=1',</span> <span class="pre">'spam=2',</span> <span class="pre">'Spam']</span></code>.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="mimetools.Message.getparam"> <code class="descclassname">Message.</code><code class="descname">getparam</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>name</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#mimetools.Message.getparam" title="Permalink to this definition">ΒΆ</a></dt> <dd><p>Return the <em>value</em> of the first parameter (as returned by <a class="reference internal" href="#mimetools.Message.getplist" title="mimetools.Message.getplist"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">getplist()</span></code></a>) of the form <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">name=value</span></code> for the given <em>name</em>. If <em>value</em> is surrounded by quotes of the form β<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre"><</span></code>β¦<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">></span></code>β or β<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">"</span></code>β¦<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">"</span></code>β, these are removed.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="mimetools.Message.getencoding"> <code class="descclassname">Message.</code><code class="descname">getencoding</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#mimetools.Message.getencoding" title="Permalink to this definition">ΒΆ</a></dt> <dd><p>Return the encoding specified in the <em class="mailheader">Content-Transfer-Encoding</em> message header. If no such header exists, return <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'7bit'</span></code>. The encoding is converted to lower case.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="mimetools.Message.gettype"> <code class="descclassname">Message.</code><code class="descname">gettype</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#mimetools.Message.gettype" title="Permalink to this definition">ΒΆ</a></dt> <dd><p>Return the message type (of the form <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">type/subtype</span></code>) as specified in the <em class="mailheader">Content-Type</em> header. If no such header exists, return <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'text/plain'</span></code>. The type is converted to lower case.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="mimetools.Message.getmaintype"> <code class="descclassname">Message.</code><code class="descname">getmaintype</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#mimetools.Message.getmaintype" title="Permalink to this definition">ΒΆ</a></dt> <dd><p>Return the main type as specified in the <em class="mailheader">Content-Type</em> header. If no such header exists, return <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'text'</span></code>. The main type is converted to lower case.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="mimetools.Message.getsubtype"> <code class="descclassname">Message.</code><code class="descname">getsubtype</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#mimetools.Message.getsubtype" title="Permalink to this definition">ΒΆ</a></dt> <dd><p>Return the subtype as specified in the <em class="mailheader">Content-Type</em> header. If no such header exists, return <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'plain'</span></code>. 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