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18. Internet Data Handling¶
This chapter describes modules which support handling data formats commonly used on the Internet.
- 18.1.
email— An email and MIME handling package- 18.1.1.
email.message: Representing an email message - 18.1.2.
email.parser: Parsing email messages - 18.1.3.
email.generator: Generating MIME documents - 18.1.4.
email.mime: Creating email and MIME objects from scratch - 18.1.5.
email.header: Internationalized headers - 18.1.6.
email.charset: Representing character sets - 18.1.7.
email.encoders: Encoders - 18.1.8.
email.errors: Exception and Defect classes - 18.1.9.
email.utils: Miscellaneous utilities - 18.1.10.
email.iterators: Iterators - 18.1.11.
email: Examples - 18.1.12. Package History
- 18.1.13. Differences from
mimelib
- 18.1.1.
- 18.2.
json— JSON encoder and decoder - 18.3.
mailcap— Mailcap file handling - 18.4.
mailbox— Manipulate mailboxes in various formats - 18.5.
mhlib— Access to MH mailboxes - 18.6.
mimetools— Tools for parsing MIME messages - 18.7.
mimetypes— Map filenames to MIME types - 18.8.
MimeWriter— Generic MIME file writer - 18.9.
mimify— MIME processing of mail messages - 18.10.
multifile— Support for files containing distinct parts - 18.11.
rfc822— Parse RFC 2822 mail headers - 18.12.
base64— RFC 3548: Base16, Base32, Base64 Data Encodings - 18.13.
binhex— Encode and decode binhex4 files - 18.14.
binascii— Convert between binary and ASCII - 18.15.
quopri— Encode and decode MIME quoted-printable data - 18.16.
uu— Encode and decode uuencode files