7. Internet Data Handling

This chapter describes modules which support handling data formats commonly used on the Internet.

email		Package supporting the parsing, manipulating, and generating email messages, including MIME documents.
email.message		The base class representing email messages.
email.parser		Parse flat text email messages to produce a message object structure.
email.generator		Generate flat text email messages from a message structure.
email.mime
email.mime.base
email.mime.nonmultipart
email.mime.multipart
email.mime.audio
email.mime.image
email.mime.message
email.mime.text
email.header		Representing non-ASCII headers
email.charset		Character Sets
email.encoders		Encoders for email message payloads.
email.errors		The exception classes used by the email package.
email.utils		Miscellaneous email package utilities.
email.iterators		Iterate over a message object tree.
mailcap		Mailcap file handling.
mailbox		Manipulate mailboxes in various formats
mhlib		Manipulate MH mailboxes from Python.
mimetools		Tools for parsing MIME-style message bodies.
mimetypes		Mapping of filename extensions to MIME types.
MimeWriter		Generic MIME file writer.
mimify		Mimification and unmimification of mail messages.
multifile		Support for reading files which contain distinct parts, such as some MIME data.
rfc822		Parse RFC 2822 style mail messages.
base64		RFC 3548: Base16, Base32, Base64 Data Encodings
binhex		Encode and decode files in binhex4 format.
binascii		Tools for converting between binary and various ASCII-encoded binary representations.
quopri		Encode and decode files using the MIME quoted-printable encoding.
uu		Encode and decode files in uuencode format.

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