Internet Data Handling

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

• email An email and MIME handling package
  • email.message: Representing an email message
  • email.parser: Parsing email messages
    • FeedParser API
    • Parser API
    • Additional notes
  • email.generator: Generating MIME documents
  • email.policy: Policy Objects
  • email.errors: Exception and Defect classes
  • email.headerregistry: Custom Header Objects
  • email.contentmanager: Managing MIME Content
    • Content Manager Instances
  • email: Examples
  • email.message.Message: Representing an email message using the compat32 API
  • email.mime: Creating email and MIME objects from scratch
  • email.header: Internationalized headers
  • email.charset: Representing character sets
  • email.encoders: Encoders
  • email.utils: Miscellaneous utilities
  • email.iterators: Iterators
• json JSON encoder and decoder
  • Basic Usage
  • Encoders and Decoders
  • Exceptions
  • Standard Compliance and Interoperability
    • Character Encodings
    • Infinite and NaN Number Values
    • Repeated Names Within an Object
    • Top-level Non-Object, Non-Array Values
    • Implementation Limitations
  • Command-line interface
    • Command-line options
• mailbox Manipulate mailboxes in various formats
  • Mailbox objects
    • Maildir objects
    • mbox objects
    • MH objects
    • Babyl objects
    • MMDF objects
  • Message objects
    • MaildirMessage objects
    • mboxMessage objects
    • MHMessage objects
    • BabylMessage objects
    • MMDFMessage objects
  • Exceptions
  • Examples
• mimetypes Map filenames to MIME types
  • MimeTypes objects
  • Command-line usage
  • Command-line example
• base64 Base16, Base32, Base64, Base85 Data Encodings
  • RFC 4648 Encodings
  • Base85 Encodings
  • Legacy Interface
  • Security Considerations
• binascii Convert between binary and ASCII
• quopri Encode and decode MIME quoted-printable data