NNTPlib encoding issue

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mohit_ranka wrote:
> I am getting unknown encoding like, "=?Utf-8?B?QWRyaWFu?=
> <Adrian at discussions.microsoft.com>" (quotes for clarity) for name of
> the author from nntplib module. which seems like an encoding issue
> with NNTPLib module.
> 
> What should i do to get author name information in human readable
> format.
> 
The original text was encoded in UTF-8 and then into base-64:

=?Utf-8?B?QWRyaWFu?=
   ^^^^^ UTF-8

=?Utf-8?B?QWRyaWFu?=
         ^ Base-64

So that's:

 >>> "QWRyaWFu".decode("base-64").decode("Utf-8")
u'Adrian'