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Internet Data Handling</a> &raquo;</li> <li><a href="email.html" accesskey="U">18.1. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">email</span></tt> &#8212; An email and MIME handling package</a> &raquo;</li> </ul> </div> <div class="document"> <div class="documentwrapper"> <div class="bodywrapper"> <div class="body"> <div class="section" id="module-email.generator"> <span id="email-generator-generating-mime-documents"></span><h1>18.1.3. <a class="reference internal" href="#module-email.generator" title="email.generator: Generate flat text email messages from a message structure."><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">email.generator</span></tt></a>: Generating MIME documents<a class="headerlink" href="#module-email.generator" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1> <p>One of the most common tasks is to generate the flat text of the email message represented by a message object structure. You will need to do this if you want to send your message via the <a class="reference internal" href="smtplib.html#module-smtplib" title="smtplib: SMTP protocol client (requires sockets)."><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">smtplib</span></tt></a> module or the <a class="reference internal" href="nntplib.html#module-nntplib" title="nntplib: NNTP protocol client (requires sockets)."><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">nntplib</span></tt></a> module, or print the message on the console. Taking a message object structure and producing a flat text document is the job of the <a class="reference internal" href="#email.generator.Generator" title="email.generator.Generator"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Generator</span></tt></a> class.</p> <p>Again, as with the <a class="reference internal" href="email.parser.html#module-email.parser" title="email.parser: Parse flat text email messages to produce a message object structure."><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">email.parser</span></tt></a> module, you aren&#8217;t limited to the functionality of the bundled generator; you could write one from scratch yourself. However the bundled generator knows how to generate most email in a standards-compliant way, should handle MIME and non-MIME email messages just fine, and is designed so that the transformation from flat text, to a message structure via the <a class="reference internal" href="email.parser.html#email.parser.Parser" title="email.parser.Parser"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Parser</span></tt></a> class, and back to flat text, is idempotent (the input is identical to the output) <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id2" id="id1">[1]</a>. On the other hand, using the Generator on a <a class="reference internal" href="email.message.html#email.message.Message" title="email.message.Message"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Message</span></tt></a> constructed by program may result in changes to the <a class="reference internal" href="email.message.html#email.message.Message" title="email.message.Message"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Message</span></tt></a> object as defaults are filled in.</p> <p>Here are the public methods of the <a class="reference internal" href="#email.generator.Generator" title="email.generator.Generator"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Generator</span></tt></a> class, imported from the <a class="reference internal" href="#module-email.generator" title="email.generator: Generate flat text email messages from a message structure."><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">email.generator</span></tt></a> module:</p> <dl class="class"> <dt id="email.generator.Generator"> <em class="property">class </em><tt class="descclassname">email.generator.</tt><tt class="descname">Generator</tt><big>(</big><em>outfp</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>mangle_from_</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>maxheaderlen</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#email.generator.Generator" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>The constructor for the <a class="reference internal" href="#email.generator.Generator" title="email.generator.Generator"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Generator</span></tt></a> class takes a file-like object called <em>outfp</em> for an argument. <em>outfp</em> must support the <a class="reference internal" href="#email.generator.Generator.write" title="email.generator.Generator.write"><tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">write()</span></tt></a> method and be usable as the output file in a Python extended print statement.</p> <p>Optional <em>mangle_from_</em> is a flag that, when <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">True</span></tt>, puts a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&gt;</span></tt> character in front of any line in the body that starts exactly as <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">From</span></tt>, i.e. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">From</span></tt> followed by a space at the beginning of the line. This is the only guaranteed portable way to avoid having such lines be mistaken for a Unix mailbox format envelope header separator (see <a class="reference external" href="http://www.jwz.org/doc/content-length.html">WHY THE CONTENT-LENGTH FORMAT IS BAD</a> for details). <em>mangle_from_</em> defaults to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">True</span></tt>, but you might want to set this to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">False</span></tt> if you are not writing Unix mailbox format files.</p> <p>Optional <em>maxheaderlen</em> specifies the longest length for a non-continued header. When a header line is longer than <em>maxheaderlen</em> (in characters, with tabs expanded to 8 spaces), the header will be split as defined in the <a class="reference internal" href="email.header.html#email.header.Header" title="email.header.Header"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Header</span></tt></a> class. Set to zero to disable header wrapping. The default is 78, as recommended (but not required) by <span class="target" id="index-0"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822.html"><strong>RFC 2822</strong></a>.</p> <p>The other public <a class="reference internal" href="#email.generator.Generator" title="email.generator.Generator"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Generator</span></tt></a> methods are:</p> <dl class="method"> <dt id="email.generator.Generator.flatten"> <tt class="descname">flatten</tt><big>(</big><em>msg</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>unixfrom</em><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#email.generator.Generator.flatten" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Print the textual representation of the message object structure rooted at <em>msg</em> to the output file specified when the <a class="reference internal" href="#email.generator.Generator" title="email.generator.Generator"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Generator</span></tt></a> instance was created. Subparts are visited depth-first and the resulting text will be properly MIME encoded.</p> <p>Optional <em>unixfrom</em> is a flag that forces the printing of the envelope header delimiter before the first <span class="target" id="index-1"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822.html"><strong>RFC 2822</strong></a> header of the root message object. If the root object has no envelope header, a standard one is crafted. By default, this is set to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">False</span></tt> to inhibit the printing of the envelope delimiter.</p> <p>Note that for subparts, no envelope header is ever printed.</p> <p class="versionadded"> <span class="versionmodified">New in version 2.2.2.</span></p> </dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="email.generator.Generator.clone"> <tt class="descname">clone</tt><big>(</big><em>fp</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#email.generator.Generator.clone" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Return an independent clone of this <a class="reference internal" href="#email.generator.Generator" title="email.generator.Generator"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Generator</span></tt></a> instance with the exact same options.</p> <p class="versionadded"> <span class="versionmodified">New in version 2.2.2.</span></p> </dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="email.generator.Generator.write"> <tt class="descname">write</tt><big>(</big><em>s</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#email.generator.Generator.write" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Write the string <em>s</em> to the underlying file object, i.e. <em>outfp</em> passed to <a class="reference internal" href="#email.generator.Generator" title="email.generator.Generator"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Generator</span></tt></a>&#8216;s constructor. This provides just enough file-like API for <a class="reference internal" href="#email.generator.Generator" title="email.generator.Generator"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Generator</span></tt></a> instances to be used in extended print statements.</p> </dd></dl> </dd></dl> <p>As a convenience, see the methods <tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">Message.as_string()</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">str(aMessage)</span></tt>, a.k.a. <tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">Message.__str__()</span></tt>, which simplify the generation of a formatted string representation of a message object. For more detail, see <a class="reference internal" href="email.message.html#module-email.message" title="email.message: The base class representing email messages."><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">email.message</span></tt></a>.</p> <p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#module-email.generator" title="email.generator: Generate flat text email messages from a message structure."><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">email.generator</span></tt></a> module also provides a derived class, called <a class="reference internal" href="#email.generator.DecodedGenerator" title="email.generator.DecodedGenerator"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">DecodedGenerator</span></tt></a> which is like the <a class="reference internal" href="#email.generator.Generator" title="email.generator.Generator"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Generator</span></tt></a> base class, except that non-<em class="mimetype">text</em> parts are substituted with a format string representing the part.</p> <dl class="class"> <dt id="email.generator.DecodedGenerator"> <em class="property">class </em><tt class="descclassname">email.generator.</tt><tt class="descname">DecodedGenerator</tt><big>(</big><em>outfp</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>mangle_from_</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>maxheaderlen</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>fmt</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#email.generator.DecodedGenerator" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>This class, derived from <a class="reference internal" href="#email.generator.Generator" title="email.generator.Generator"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Generator</span></tt></a> walks through all the subparts of a message. If the subpart is of main type <em class="mimetype">text</em>, then it prints the decoded payload of the subpart. Optional <em>_mangle_from_</em> and <em>maxheaderlen</em> are as with the <a class="reference internal" href="#email.generator.Generator" title="email.generator.Generator"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Generator</span></tt></a> base class.</p> <p>If the subpart is not of main type <em class="mimetype">text</em>, optional <em>fmt</em> is a format string that is used instead of the message payload. <em>fmt</em> is expanded with the following keywords, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">%(keyword)s</span></tt> format:</p> <ul class="simple"> <li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">type</span></tt> &#8211; Full MIME type of the non-<em class="mimetype">text</em> part</li> <li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">maintype</span></tt> &#8211; Main MIME type of the non-<em class="mimetype">text</em> part</li> <li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">subtype</span></tt> &#8211; Sub-MIME type of the non-<em class="mimetype">text</em> part</li> <li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">filename</span></tt> &#8211; Filename of the non-<em class="mimetype">text</em> part</li> <li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">description</span></tt> &#8211; Description associated with the non-<em class="mimetype">text</em> part</li> <li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">encoding</span></tt> &#8211; Content transfer encoding of the non-<em class="mimetype">text</em> part</li> </ul> <p>The default value for <em>fmt</em> is <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">None</span></tt>, meaning</p> <div class="highlight-python"><pre>[Non-text (%(type)s) part of message omitted, filename %(filename)s]</pre> </div> <p class="versionadded"> <span class="versionmodified">New in version 2.2.2.</span></p> </dd></dl> <p class="versionchanged"> <span class="versionmodified">Changed in version 2.5: </span>The previously deprecated method <a class="reference internal" href="../reference/datamodel.html#object.__call__" title="object.__call__"><tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">__call__()</span></tt></a> was removed.</p> <p class="rubric">Footnotes</p> <table class="docutils footnote" frame="void" id="id2" rules="none"> <colgroup><col class="label" /><col /></colgroup> <tbody valign="top"> <tr><td class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id1">[1]</a></td><td>This statement assumes that you use the appropriate setting for the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">unixfrom</span></tt> argument, and that you set maxheaderlen=0 (which will preserve whatever the input line lengths were). It is also not strictly true, since in many cases runs of whitespace in headers are collapsed into single blanks. 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