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

• 19.1. email — An email and MIME handling package
  • 19.1.1. email.message: Representing an email message
  • 19.1.2. email.parser: Parsing email messages
    • 19.1.2.1. FeedParser API
    • 19.1.2.2. Parser class API
    • 19.1.2.3. Additional notes
  • 19.1.3. email.generator: Generating MIME documents
  • 19.1.4. email.policy: Policy Objects
  • 19.1.5. email.headerregistry: Custom Header Objects
  • 19.1.6. email.contentmanager: Managing MIME Content
    • 19.1.6.1. Content Manager Instances
  • 19.1.7. email.mime: Creating email and MIME objects from scratch
  • 19.1.8. email.header: Internationalized headers
  • 19.1.9. email.charset: Representing character sets
  • 19.1.10. email.encoders: Encoders
  • 19.1.11. email.errors: Exception and Defect classes
  • 19.1.12. email.utils: Miscellaneous utilities
  • 19.1.13. email.iterators: Iterators
  • 19.1.14. email: Examples
    • 19.1.14.1. Examples using the Provisional API
  • 19.1.15. Package History
  • 19.1.16. Differences from mimelib
• 19.2. json — JSON encoder and decoder
  • 19.2.1. Basic Usage
  • 19.2.2. Encoders and Decoders
  • 19.2.3. Exceptions
  • 19.2.4. Standard Compliance and Interoperability
    • 19.2.4.1. Character Encodings
    • 19.2.4.2. Infinite and NaN Number Values
    • 19.2.4.3. Repeated Names Within an Object
    • 19.2.4.4. Top-level Non-Object, Non-Array Values
    • 19.2.4.5. Implementation Limitations
  • 19.2.5. Command Line Interface
    • 19.2.5.1. Command line options
• 19.3. mailcap — Mailcap file handling
• 19.4. mailbox — Manipulate mailboxes in various formats
  • 19.4.1. Mailbox objects
    • 19.4.1.1. Maildir
    • 19.4.1.2. mbox
    • 19.4.1.3. MH
    • 19.4.1.4. Babyl
    • 19.4.1.5. MMDF
  • 19.4.2. Message objects
    • 19.4.2.1. MaildirMessage
    • 19.4.2.2. mboxMessage
    • 19.4.2.3. MHMessage
    • 19.4.2.4. BabylMessage
    • 19.4.2.5. MMDFMessage
  • 19.4.3. Exceptions
  • 19.4.4. Examples
• 19.5. mimetypes — Map filenames to MIME types
  • 19.5.1. MimeTypes Objects
• 19.6. base64 — Base16, Base32, Base64, Base85 Data Encodings
• 19.7. binhex — Encode and decode binhex4 files
  • 19.7.1. Notes
• 19.8. binascii — Convert between binary and ASCII
• 19.9. quopri — Encode and decode MIME quoted-printable data
• 19.10. uu — Encode and decode uuencode files