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email.mime.base

Source code for email.mime.base

# Copyright (C) 2001-2006 Python Software Foundation
# Author: Barry Warsaw
# Contact: email-sig@python.org

"""Base class for MIME specializations."""

__all__ = ['MIMEBase']

from email import message




[docs]class MIMEBase(message.Message): """Base class for MIME specializations.""" def __init__(self, _maintype, _subtype, **_params): """This constructor adds a Content-Type: and a MIME-Version: header. The Content-Type: header is taken from the _maintype and _subtype arguments. Additional parameters for this header are taken from the keyword arguments. """ message.Message.__init__(self) ctype = '%s/%s' % (_maintype, _subtype) self.add_header('Content-Type', ctype, **_params) self['MIME-Version'] = '1.0'