7. Internet Data Handling

Python 2.5

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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.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.mime`
`email.mime.base`
`email.mime.nonmultipart`
`email.mime.multipart`
`email.mime.audio`
`email.mime.image`
`email.mime.message`
`email.mime.text`
`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`		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.
`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
`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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