18 Internet Data Handling

This chapter describes modules which support handling data formats commonly used on the Internet.

• 1. email — An email and MIME handling package
• 2. json — JSON encoder and decoder
• 3. mailcap — Mailcap file handling
• 4. mailbox — Manipulate mailboxes in various formats
• 5. (depr) mhlib — Access to MH mailboxes
• 6. (depr) mimetools — Tools for parsing MIME messages
• 7. mimetypes — Map filenames to MIME types
• 8. (depr) MimeWriter — Generic MIME file writer
• 9. (depr) mimify — MIME processing of mail messages
• 10. (depr) multifile — Support for files containing distinct parts
• 11. (depr) rfc822 — Parse RFC 2822 mail headers
• 12. base64 — RFC 3548: Base16, Base32, Base64 Data Encodings
• 13. binhex — Encode and decode binhex4 files
• 14. binascii — Convert between binary and ASCII
• 15. quopri — Encode and decode MIME quoted-printable data
• 16. uu — Encode and decode uuencode files