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. | |
| Package supporting the parsing, manipulating, and generating email messages, including MIME documents. | ||
| email.Message | The base class representing email messages. | |
| 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.Header | Representing non-ASCII headers | |
| email.Charset | Character Sets | |
| email.Encoders | Encoders for email message payloads. | |
| email.Errors | The exception classes used by the email package. | |
| email.Utils | Miscellaneous email package utilities. | |
| email.Iterators | Iterate over a message object tree. | |
| mailcap | Mailcap file handling. | |
| 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. | |
| MimeWriter | Generic MIME file writer. | |
| mimify | Mimification and unmimification of mail messages. | |
| multifile | Support for reading files which contain distinct parts, such as some MIME data. | |
| rfc822 | Parse RFC 2822 style mail messages. | |
| base64 | RFC 3548: Base16, Base32, Base64 Data Encodings | |
| 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. | |
| csv | Write and read tabular data to and from delimited files. |
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