mimetools.Message

Module mimetools :: Class Message

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Class Message

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         Message

A derived class of rfc822.Message that knows about MIME headers and contains some hooks for decoding encoded and multipart messages.

Method Summary
	`__init__(self, fp, seekable)` Initialize the class instance and read the headers.
	`getencoding(self)`
	`getmaintype(self)`
	`getparam(self, name)`
	`getparamnames(self)`
	`getplist(self)`
	`getsubtype(self)`
	`gettype(self)`
	`parseplist(self)`
	`parsetype(self)`
Inherited from Message
	`__contains__(self, name)` Determine whether a message contains the named header.
	`__delitem__(self, name)` Delete all occurrences of a specific header, if it is present.
	`__getitem__(self, name)` Get a specific header, as from a dictionary.
	`__iter__(self)`
	`__len__(self)` Get the number of headers in a message.
	`__setitem__(self, name, value)` Set the value of a header.
	`__str__(self)`
	`get(self, name, default)` Get the header value for a name.
	`getaddr(self, name)` Get a single address from a header, as a tuple.
	`getaddrlist(self, name)` Get a list of addresses from a header.
	`getallmatchingheaders(self, name)` Find all header lines matching a given header name.
	`getdate(self, name)` Retrieve a date field from a header.
	`getdate_tz(self, name)` Retrieve a date field from a header as a 10-tuple.
	`getfirstmatchingheader(self, name)` Get the first header line matching name.
	`getheader(self, name, default)` Get the header value for a name.
	`getheaders(self, name)` Get all values for a header.
	`getrawheader(self, name)` A higher-level interface to getfirstmatchingheader().
	`has_key(self, name)` Determine whether a message contains the named header.
	`iscomment(self, line)` Determine whether a line should be skipped entirely.
	`isheader(self, line)` Determine whether a given line is a legal header.
	`islast(self, line)` Determine whether a line is a legal end of RFC 2822 headers.
	`items(self)` Get all of a message's headers.
	`keys(self)` Get all of a message's header field names.
	`readheaders(self)` Read header lines.
	`rewindbody(self)` Rewind the file to the start of the body (if seekable).
	`setdefault(self, name, default)`
	`values(self)` Get all of a message's header field values.

Method Details

init(self, fp, seekable=1)
(Constructor)

Initialize the class instance and read the headers.

Overrides:: rfc822.Message.__init__ (inherited documentation)

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Class Message

__init__(self, fp, seekable=1) (Constructor)

init(self, fp, seekable=1)
(Constructor)