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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.
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 tree.
email.Generator		Generate flat text email messages from a message object tree.
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		Encode and decode files using the MIME base64 data.
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.

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Release 2.2, documentation updated on December 21, 2001.