12. Internet Data Handling
This chapter describes modules which support handling data formats
commonly used on the Internet.
formatter
Generic output formatter and device interface.
email
Package supporting the parsing, manipulating, and
generating email messages, including MIME documents.
email.Parser
Parse flat text email messages to produce a message
object structure.
email.Generator
Generate flat text email messages from a message structure.
email.Errors
The exception classes used by the email package.
mailbox
Read various mailbox formats.
mhlib
Manipulate MH mailboxes from Python.
mimetools
Tools for parsing MIME-style message bodies.
mimetypes
Mapping of filename extensions to MIME types.
mimify
Mimification and unmimification of mail messages.
multifile
Support for reading files which contain distinct
parts, such as some MIME data.
base64
Encode and decode files using the MIME base64 data.
binascii
Tools for converting between binary and various
ASCII-encoded binary representations.
binhex
Encode and decode files in binhex4 format.
quopri
Encode and decode files using the MIME
quoted-printable encoding.
uu
Encode and decode files in uuencode format.
xdrlib
Encoders and decoders for the External Data
Representation (XDR).
netrc
Loading of
.netrc files.
robotparser
Loads a
robots.txt file and
answers questions about fetchability of other URLs.
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