# quopri --- Encode and decode MIME quoted-printable data

> synopsis: Encode and decode files using the MIME quoted-printable encoding.

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synopsis: Encode and decode files using the MIME quoted-printable encoding.

Source code: Lib/quopri.py

pair: quoted-printable; encoding single: MIME; quoted-printable encoding

This module performs quoted-printable transport encoding and decoding, as defined in 1521: "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 base64 module is more compact if there are many such characters, as when sending a graphics file.

Decode the contents of the input file and write the resulting decoded binary data to the output file. input and output must be binary file objects . 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 1522: "MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Two: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text".

Encode the contents of the input file and write the resulting quoted-printable data to the output file. input and output must be binary file objects . 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 1521. header is a flag which controls if spaces are encoded as underscores as per 1522.

Like decode, except that it accepts a source bytes and returns the corresponding decoded bytes.

Like encode, except that it accepts a source bytes and returns the corresponding encoded bytes. By default, it sends a False value to quotetabs parameter of the encode function.

Module base64 Encode and decode MIME base64 data

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