mimetools.Message

Module mimetools :: Class Message

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Class Message

Message --+
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         Message

Known Subclasses:: HTTPMessage

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

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)