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
    • 18.1.2.1. FeedParser API
    • 18.1.2.2. Parser class API
    • 18.1.2.3. Additional notes
  • 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
• 18.2. json JSON encoder and decoder
  • 18.2.1. Basic Usage
  • 18.2.2. Encoders and Decoders
  • 18.2.3. Standard Compliance and Interoperability
    • 18.2.3.1. Character Encodings
    • 18.2.3.2. Infinite and NaN Number Values
    • 18.2.3.3. Repeated Names Within an Object
    • 18.2.3.4. Top-level Non-Object, Non-Array Values
    • 18.2.3.5. Implementation Limitations
• 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. Deprecated classes and methods
  • 18.4.5. Examples
• 18.5. mhlib Access to MH mailboxes
  • 18.5.1. MH Objects
  • 18.5.2. Folder Objects
  • 18.5.3. Message Objects
• 18.6. mimetools Tools for parsing MIME messages
  • 18.6.1. Additional Methods of Message Objects
• 18.7. mimetypes Map filenames to MIME types
  • 18.7.1. MimeTypes Objects
• 18.8. MimeWriter Generic MIME file writer
  • 18.8.1. MimeWriter Objects
• 18.9. mimify MIME processing of mail messages
• 18.10. multifile Support for files containing distinct parts
  • 18.10.1. MultiFile Objects
  • 18.10.2. MultiFile Example
• 18.11. rfc822 Parse RFC 2822 mail headers
  • 18.11.1. Message Objects
  • 18.11.2. AddressList Objects
• 18.12. base64 RFC 3548: Base16, Base32, Base64 Data Encodings
• 18.13. binhex Encode and decode binhex4 files
  • 18.13.1. Notes
• 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