email.encoders: Encoders

Source code: Lib/email/encoders.py


This module is part of the legacy (Compat32) email API. In the new API the functionality is provided by the cte parameter of the set_content() method.

This module is deprecated in Python 3. The functions provided here should not be called explicitly since the MIMEText class sets the content type and CTE header using the _subtype and _charset values passed during the instantiation of that class.

The remaining text in this section is the original documentation of the module.

When creating Message objects from scratch, you often need to encode the payloads for transport through compliant mail servers. This is especially true for image/* and text/* type messages containing binary data.

email 包在其 encoders 模块中提供了一些方便的编码器。 这些编码器实际上由 MIMEAudioMIMEImage 类构造器所使用以提供默认编码格式。 所有编码器函数都只接受一个参数,即要编码的消息对象。 它们通常会提取有效载荷,对其进行编码,并将载荷重置为这种新编码的值。 它们还应当相应地设置 Content-Transfer-Encoding 标头。

Note that these functions are not meaningful for a multipart message. They must be applied to individual subparts instead, and will raise a TypeError if passed a message whose type is multipart.

Here are the encoding functions provided:

email.encoders.encode_quopri(msg)

Encodes the payload into quoted-printable form and sets the Content-Transfer-Encoding header to quoted-printable 1. This is a good encoding to use when most of your payload is normal printable data, but contains a few unprintable characters.

email.encoders.encode_base64(msg)

Encodes the payload into base64 form and sets the Content-Transfer-Encoding header to base64. This is a good encoding to use when most of your payload is unprintable data since it is a more compact form than quoted-printable. The drawback of base64 encoding is that it renders the text non-human readable.

email.encoders.encode_7or8bit(msg)

This doesn't actually modify the message's payload, but it does set the Content-Transfer-Encoding header to either 7bit or 8bit as appropriate, based on the payload data.

email.encoders.encode_noop(msg)

This does nothing; it doesn't even set the Content-Transfer-Encoding header.

註解

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Note that encoding with encode_quopri() also encodes all tabs and space characters in the data.