Python Library Reference / Internet Data Handling¶
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Internet Data Handling¶
12.1 formatter – Generic output formatting
12.1.1 The Formatter Interface 12.1.2 Formatter Implementations 12.1.3 The Writer Interface 12.1.4 Writer Implementations
12.2 email – An email and MIME handling package
12.2.1 Representing an email message 12.2.2 Parsing email messages 12.2.3 Generating MIME documents 12.2.4 Creating email and MIME objects from scratch 12.2.5 Internationalized headers 12.2.6 Representing character sets 12.2.7 Encoders 12.2.8 Exception classes 12.2.9 Miscellaneous utilities 12.2.10 Iterators 12.2.11 Differences from email v1 (up to Python 2.2.1) 12.2.12 Differences from mimelib 12.2.13 Examples
12.3 mailcap – Mailcap file handling.
12.4 mailbox – Read various mailbox formats
12.4.1 Mailbox Objects
12.5 mhlib – Access to MH mailboxes
12.5.1 MH Objects 12.5.2 Folder Objects 12.5.3 Message Objects
12.6 mimetools – Tools for parsing MIME messages
12.6.1 Additional Methods of Message Objects
12.7 mimetypes – Map filenames to MIME types
12.7.1 MimeTypes Objects
12.8 MimeWriter – Generic MIME file writer
12.8.1 MimeWriter Objects
12.9 mimify – MIME processing of mail messages
12.10 multifile – Support for files containing distinct parts
12.10.1 MultiFile Objects 12.10.2 MultiFile Example
12.11 rfc822 – Parse RFC 2822 mail headers
12.11.1 Message Objects 12.11.2 AddressList Objects
12.12 base64 – Encode and decode MIME base64 data
12.13 binascii – Convert between binary and ASCII
12.14 binhex – Encode and decode binhex4 files
12.14.1 Notes
12.15 quopri – Encode and decode MIME quoted-printable data
12.16 uu – Encode and decode uuencode files
12.17 xdrlib – Encode and decode XDR data
12.17.1 Packer Objects 12.17.2 Unpacker Objects 12.17.3 Exceptions
12.18 netrc – netrc file processing
12.18.1 netrc Objects
12.19 robotparser – Parser for robots.txt
12.20 csv – CSV File Reading and Writing
12.20.1 Module Contents 12.20.2 Dialects and Formatting Parameters 12.20.3 Reader Objects 12.20.4 Writer Objects 12.20.5 Examples