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This module performs quoted-printable transport encoding and decoding, as defined in
: “MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part One: Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies”. The quoted-printable encoding is designed for data where there are relatively few nonprintable characters; the base64 encoding scheme available via the
module is more compact if there are many such characters, as when sending a graphics file.
quopri.decode(input, output, header=False)
Decode the contents of the input file and write the resulting decoded binary data to the output file. input and output must be
. If the optional argument header is present and true, underscore will be decoded as space. This is used to decode “Q”-encoded headers as described in
: “MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Two: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text”.
quopri.encode(input, output, quotetabs, header=False)
Encode the contents of the input file and write the resulting quoted-printable data to the output file. input and output must be
. quotetabs, a non-optional flag which controls whether to encode embedded spaces and tabs; when true it encodes such embedded whitespace, and when false it leaves them unencoded. Note that spaces and tabs appearing at the end of lines are always encoded, as per
. header is a flag which controls if spaces are encoded as underscores as per
.
quopri.decodestring(s, header=False)
Like
, except that it accepts a source
and returns the corresponding decoded bytes.
quopri.encodestring(s, quotetabs=False, header=False)
Like
, except that it accepts a source
and returns the corresponding encoded bytes. By default, it sends a False value to quotetabs parameter of the encode() function.
See also
Module
Encode and decode MIME base64 data