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: Representing an email message
  • 18.1.2. email: Parsing email messages
    • 18.1.2.1. FeedParser API
    • 18.1.2.2. Parser class API
    • 18.1.2.3. Additional notes
  • 18.1.3. email: Generating MIME documents
  • 18.1.4. email: Creating email and MIME objects from scratch
  • 18.1.5. email: Internationalized headers
  • 18.1.6. email: Representing character sets
  • 18.1.7. email: Encoders
  • 18.1.8. email: Exception and Defect classes
  • 18.1.9. email: Miscellaneous utilities
  • 18.1.10. email: Iterators
  • 18.1.11. email: Examples
  • 18.1.12. Package History
  • 18.1.13. Differences from mimelib
• 18.2. json — JSON encoder and decoder
  • 18.2.1. Basic Usage
  • 18.2.2. Encoders and decoders
• 18.3. mailcap — Mailcap file handling
• 18.4. mailbox — Manipulate mailboxes in various formats
  • 18.4.1. Mailbox objects
    • 18.4.1.1. Maildir
    • 18.4.1.2. mbox
    • 18.4.1.3. MH
    • 18.4.1.4. Babyl
    • 18.4.1.5. MMDF
  • 18.4.2. Message objects
    • 18.4.2.1. MaildirMessage
    • 18.4.2.2. mboxMessage
    • 18.4.2.3. MHMessage
    • 18.4.2.4. BabylMessage
    • 18.4.2.5. MMDFMessage
  • 18.4.3. Exceptions
  • 18.4.4. Examples
• 18.5. mimetypes — Map filenames to MIME types
  • 18.5.1. MimeTypes Objects
• 18.6. base64 — RFC 3548: Base16, Base32, Base64 Data Encodings
• 18.7. binhex — Encode and decode binhex4 files
  • 18.7.1. Notes
• 18.8. binascii — Convert between binary and ASCII
• 18.9. quopri — Encode and decode MIME quoted-printable data
• 18.10. uu — Encode and decode uuencode files