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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>19.9. quopri — Encode and decode MIME quoted-printable data — Python 3.6.7 documentation</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../_static/pydoctheme.css" type="text/css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../_static/pygments.css" type="text/css" /> <script type="text/javascript" id="documentation_options" data-url_root="../" src="../_static/documentation_options.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/jquery.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/underscore.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/doctools.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/sidebar.js"></script> <link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" title="Search within Python 3.6.7 documentation" href="../_static/opensearch.xml"/> <link rel="author" title="About these documents" href="../about.html" /> <link rel="index" title="Index" href="../genindex.html" /> <link rel="search" title="Search" href="../search.html" /> <link rel="copyright" title="Copyright" href="../copyright.html" /> <link rel="next" title="19.10. uu — Encode and decode uuencode files" href="uu.html" /> <link rel="prev" title="19.8. binascii — Convert between binary and ASCII" href="binascii.html" /> <link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="../_static/py.png" /> <link rel="canonical" href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/quopri.html" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/copybutton.js"></script> </head><body> <div class="related" role="navigation" aria-label="related navigation"> <h3>Navigation</h3> <ul> <li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px"> <a href="../genindex.html" title="General Index" accesskey="I">index</a></li> <li class="right" > <a href="../py-modindex.html" title="Python Module Index" >modules</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="uu.html" title="19.10. uu — Encode and decode uuencode files" accesskey="N">next</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="binascii.html" title="19.8. binascii — Convert between binary and ASCII" accesskey="P">previous</a> |</li> <li><img src="../_static/py.png" alt="" style="vertical-align: middle; margin-top: -1px"/></li> <li><a href="https://www.python.org/">Python</a> »</li> <li> <a href="../index.html">3.6.7 Documentation</a> » </li> <li class="nav-item nav-item-1"><a href="index.html" >The Python Standard Library</a> »</li> <li class="nav-item nav-item-2"><a href="netdata.html" accesskey="U">19. Internet Data Handling</a> »</li> <li class="right"> <div class="inline-search" style="display: none" role="search"> <form class="inline-search" action="../search.html" method="get"> <input placeholder="Quick search" type="text" name="q" /> <input type="submit" value="Go" /> <input type="hidden" name="check_keywords" value="yes" /> <input type="hidden" name="area" value="default" /> </form> </div> <script type="text/javascript">$('.inline-search').show(0);</script> | </li> </ul> </div> <div class="document"> <div class="documentwrapper"> <div class="bodywrapper"> <div class="body" role="main"> <div class="section" id="module-quopri"> <span id="quopri-encode-and-decode-mime-quoted-printable-data"></span><h1>19.9. <a class="reference internal" href="#module-quopri" title="quopri: Encode and decode files using the MIME quoted-printable encoding."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">quopri</span></code></a> — Encode and decode MIME quoted-printable data<a class="headerlink" href="#module-quopri" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1> <p><strong>Source code:</strong> <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/python/cpython/tree/3.6/Lib/quopri.py">Lib/quopri.py</a></p> <hr class="docutils" id="index-0" /> <p>This module performs quoted-printable transport encoding and decoding, as defined in <span class="target" id="index-1"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1521.html"><strong>RFC 1521</strong></a>: “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 <a class="reference internal" href="base64.html#module-base64" title="base64: RFC 3548: Base16, Base32, Base64 Data Encodings; Base85 and Ascii85"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">base64</span></code></a> module is more compact if there are many such characters, as when sending a graphics file.</p> <dl class="function"> <dt id="quopri.decode"> <code class="descclassname">quopri.</code><code class="descname">decode</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>input</em>, <em>output</em>, <em>header=False</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#quopri.decode" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Decode the contents of the <em>input</em> file and write the resulting decoded binary data to the <em>output</em> file. <em>input</em> and <em>output</em> must be <a class="reference internal" href="../glossary.html#term-file-object"><span class="xref std std-term">binary file objects</span></a>. If the optional argument <em>header</em> is present and true, underscore will be decoded as space. This is used to decode “Q”-encoded headers as described in <span class="target" id="index-2"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1522.html"><strong>RFC 1522</strong></a>: “MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Two: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text”.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="function"> <dt id="quopri.encode"> <code class="descclassname">quopri.</code><code class="descname">encode</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>input</em>, <em>output</em>, <em>quotetabs</em>, <em>header=False</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#quopri.encode" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Encode the contents of the <em>input</em> file and write the resulting quoted-printable data to the <em>output</em> file. <em>input</em> and <em>output</em> must be <a class="reference internal" href="../glossary.html#term-file-object"><span class="xref std std-term">binary file objects</span></a>. <em>quotetabs</em>, 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 <span class="target" id="index-3"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1521.html"><strong>RFC 1521</strong></a>. <em>header</em> is a flag which controls if spaces are encoded as underscores as per <span class="target" id="index-4"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1522.html"><strong>RFC 1522</strong></a>.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="function"> <dt id="quopri.decodestring"> <code class="descclassname">quopri.</code><code class="descname">decodestring</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>s</em>, <em>header=False</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#quopri.decodestring" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Like <a class="reference internal" href="#quopri.decode" title="quopri.decode"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">decode()</span></code></a>, except that it accepts a source <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#bytes" title="bytes"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bytes</span></code></a> and returns the corresponding decoded <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#bytes" title="bytes"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bytes</span></code></a>.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="function"> <dt id="quopri.encodestring"> <code class="descclassname">quopri.</code><code class="descname">encodestring</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>s</em>, <em>quotetabs=False</em>, <em>header=False</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#quopri.encodestring" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Like <a class="reference internal" href="#quopri.encode" title="quopri.encode"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">encode()</span></code></a>, except that it accepts a source <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#bytes" title="bytes"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bytes</span></code></a> and returns the corresponding encoded <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#bytes" title="bytes"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bytes</span></code></a>. By default, it sends a <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">False</span></code> value to <em>quotetabs</em> parameter of the <a class="reference internal" href="#quopri.encode" title="quopri.encode"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">encode()</span></code></a> function.</p> </dd></dl> <div class="admonition seealso"> <p class="first admonition-title">See also</p> <dl class="last docutils"> <dt>Module <a class="reference internal" href="base64.html#module-base64" title="base64: RFC 3548: Base16, Base32, Base64 Data Encodings; Base85 and Ascii85"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">base64</span></code></a></dt> <dd>Encode and decode MIME base64 data</dd> </dl> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sphinxsidebar" role="navigation" aria-label="main navigation"> <div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper"> <h4>Previous topic</h4> <p class="topless"><a href="binascii.html" title="previous chapter">19.8. <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">binascii</span></code> — Convert between binary and ASCII</a></p> <h4>Next topic</h4> <p class="topless"><a href="uu.html" title="next chapter">19.10. <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">uu</span></code> — Encode and decode uuencode files</a></p> <div role="note" aria-label="source link"> <h3>This Page</h3> <ul class="this-page-menu"> <li><a href="../bugs.html">Report a Bug</a></li> <li> <a href="https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.6/Doc/library/quopri.rst" rel="nofollow">Show Source </a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="clearer"></div> </div> <div class="related" role="navigation" aria-label="related navigation"> <h3>Navigation</h3> <ul> <li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px"> <a href="../genindex.html" title="General Index" >index</a></li> <li class="right" > <a href="../py-modindex.html" title="Python Module Index" >modules</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="uu.html" title="19.10. uu — Encode and decode uuencode files" >next</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="binascii.html" title="19.8. binascii — Convert between binary and ASCII" >previous</a> |</li> <li><img src="../_static/py.png" alt="" style="vertical-align: middle; margin-top: -1px"/></li> <li><a href="https://www.python.org/">Python</a> »</li> <li> <a href="../index.html">3.6.7 Documentation</a> » </li> <li class="nav-item nav-item-1"><a href="index.html" >The Python Standard Library</a> »</li> <li class="nav-item nav-item-2"><a href="netdata.html" >19. 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