[python] email 8bit encoding
rurpy at yahoo.com
rurpy at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 29 23:56:33 EDT 2013
On 07/29/2013 12:16 AM, W. Trevor King wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 04:41:27PM -0700, rurpy at yahoo.com wrote:
>> How, using Python-3.3's email module, do I "flatten" (I think
>> that's the right term) a Message object to get utf-8 encoded
>> body with the headers:
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>> when the message payload was set to a python (unicode) string?
>
> I asked about this a while back [1], but never got a response. My
> current best-guess is here [2]. My fallback flattening works for
> everything except the 8-bit encoded messages using the UTF-16 charset,
> but it's pretty ugly.
>
> Let me know if you figure out something cleaner :).
>
> Cheers,
> Trevor
>
> [1]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general/725425
> [2]: https://github.com/wking/rss2email/blob/master/rss2email/email.py#L226
Thanks, that was very helpful.
My code is just a quick utility tool for internal use so
I am able to be fairly hackish without shame. :-)
Since I am synthesizing the mails from scratch and the
encoding requirements fairly simple, I could probably
dispense with the email/smtplib packages altogether and
just pipe my text directly to sendmail. But I thought
using Python's email package would be easier. Silly me.
Thanks again.
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