12.6.1 Additional Methods of Message Objects
The Message class defines the following methods in
addition to the rfc822.Message methods:
- getplist()
-
Return the parameter list of the header.
This is a list of strings. For parameters of the form
"key=value", key is converted to lower case but
value is not. For example, if the message contains the header
"Content-type: text/html; spam=1; Spam=2; Spam" then
getplist() will return the Python list
['spam=1',
'spam=2', 'Spam'].
- getparam(name)
-
Return the value of the first parameter (as returned by
getplist()) of the form "name=value" for the
given name. If value is surrounded by quotes of the form
`
<...>' or `"..."', these are removed.
- getencoding()
-
Return the encoding specified in the
message header. If no such
header exists, return
'7bit'. The encoding is converted to
lower case.
- gettype()
-
Return the message type (of the form "type/subtype")
as specified in the header. If no such
header exists, return
'text/plain'. The type is converted to
lower case.
- getmaintype()
-
Return the main type as specified in the
header. If no such header exists, return
'text'. The main
type is converted to lower case.
- getsubtype()
-
Return the subtype as specified in the
header. If no such header exists, return
'plain'. The subtype
is converted to lower case.
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