Internet Data Handling¶

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

• email — An email and MIME handling package
  • email: Representing an email message
  • email: Parsing email messages
    • FeedParser API
    • Parser class API
    • Additional notes
  • email: Generating MIME documents
  • email: Creating email and MIME objects from scratch
  • email: Internationalized headers
  • email: Representing character sets
  • email: Encoders
  • email: Exception and Defect classes
  • email: Miscellaneous utilities
  • email: Iterators
  • email: Examples
  • Package History
  • Differences from mimelib

• json — JSON encoder and decoder
  • Basic Usage
  • Encoders and decoders

• mailcap — Mailcap file handling

• mailbox — Manipulate mailboxes in various formats
  • Mailbox objects
    • Maildir
    • mbox
    • MH
    • Babyl
    • MMDF
  • Message objects
    • MaildirMessage
    • mboxMessage
    • MHMessage
    • BabylMessage
    • MMDFMessage
  • Exceptions
  • Examples

• mimetypes — Map filenames to MIME types
  • MimeTypes Objects

• base64 — RFC 3548: Base16, Base32, Base64 Data Encodings

• binhex — Encode and decode binhex4 files
  • Notes

• binascii — Convert between binary and ASCII

• quopri — Encode and decode MIME quoted-printable data

• uu — Encode and decode uuencode files