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12. Internet Data Handling

This chapter describes modules which support handling data formats commonly used on the internet. Some, like SGML and XML, may be useful for other applications as well.

formatter	Generic output formatter and device interface.
rfc822	Parse RFC 822 style mail headers.
mimetools	Tools for parsing MIME-style message bodies.
MimeWriter	Generic MIME file writer.
multifile	Support for reading files which contain distinct parts, such as some MIME data.
binhex	Encode and decode files in binhex4 format.
uu	Encode and decode files in uuencode format.
binascii	Tools for converting between binary and various ASCII-encoded binary representations.
xdrlib	Encoders and decoders for the External Data Representation (XDR).
mailcap	Mailcap file handling.
mimetypes	Mapping of filename extensions to MIME types.
base64	Encode and decode files using the MIME base64 data.
quopri	Encode and decode files using the MIME quoted-printable encoding.
mailbox	Read various mailbox formats.
mhlib	Manipulate MH mailboxes from Python.
mimify	Mimification and unmimification of mail messages.
netrc	Loading of .netrc files.
robotparser	Accepts as input a list of lines or URL that refers to a robots.txt file, parses the file, then builds a set of rules from that list and answers questions about fetchability of other URLs.

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Release 2.1.3, documentation updated on April 8, 2002.