11.11. Standard Module mimetools

It defines the following items:

Message (fp) -- function of module mimetools

Return a new instance of the mimetools.Message class. This is a subclass of the rfc822.Message class, with some additional methods (see below).

choose_boundary () -- function of module mimetools

Return a unique string that has a high likelihood of being usable as a part boundary. The string has the form "hostipaddr.uid.pid.timestamp.random".

decode (input, output, encoding) -- function of module mimetools

Read data encoded using the allowed MIME encoding from open file object input and write the decoded data to open file object output. Valid values for encoding include "base64", "quoted-printable" and "uuencode".

encode (input, output, encoding) -- function of module mimetools

Read data from open file object input and write it encoded using the allowed MIME encoding to open file object output. Valid values for encoding are the same as for decode().

copyliteral (input, output) -- function of module mimetools

Read lines until EOF from open file input and write them to open file output.

copybinary (input, output) -- function of module mimetools

Read blocks until EOF from open file input and write them to open file output. The block size is currently fixed at 8192.

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