7. Internet Data Handling
This chapter describes modules which support handling data formats
commonly used on the Internet.
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
Manipulate mailboxes in various 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
RFC 3548: Base16, Base32, Base64 Data Encodings
binhex
Encode and decode files in binhex4 format.
binascii
Tools for converting between binary and various
ASCII-encoded binary representations.
quopri
Encode and decode files using the MIME
quoted-printable encoding.
uu
Encode and decode files in uuencode format.
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