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| 56 | 12.6.1 Additional Methods of Message Objects |
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| 61 | The <tt class="class">Message</tt> class defines the following methods in |
| 62 | addition to the <tt class="class">rfc822.Message</tt> methods: |
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| 65 | <dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"> |
| 66 | <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-4012' xml:id='l2h-4012' class="method">getplist</tt></b>(</nobr></td> |
| 67 | <td><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt> |
| 68 | <dd> |
| 69 | Return the parameter list of the <span class="mailheader">Content-Type:</span> header. |
| 70 | This is a list of strings. For parameters of the form |
| 71 | "<tt class="samp"><var>key</var>=<var>value</var></tt>", <var>key</var> is converted to lower case but |
| 72 | <var>value</var> is not. For example, if the message contains the header |
| 73 | "<tt class="samp">Content-type: text/html; spam=1; Spam=2; Spam</tt>" then |
| 74 | <tt class="method">getplist()</tt> will return the Python list <code>['spam=1', |
| 75 | 'spam=2', 'Spam']</code>. |
| 76 | </dl> |
| 77 | |
| 78 | <P> |
| 79 | <dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"> |
| 80 | <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-4013' xml:id='l2h-4013' class="method">getparam</tt></b>(</nobr></td> |
| 81 | <td><var>name</var>)</td></tr></table></dt> |
| 82 | <dd> |
| 83 | Return the <var>value</var> of the first parameter (as returned by |
| 84 | <tt class="method">getplist()</tt>) of the form "<tt class="samp"><var>name</var>=<var>value</var></tt>" for the |
| 85 | given <var>name</var>. If <var>value</var> is surrounded by quotes of the form |
| 86 | `<code><</code>...<code>></code>' or `<code>"</code>...<code>"</code>', these are removed. |
| 87 | </dl> |
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| 91 | <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-4014' xml:id='l2h-4014' class="method">getencoding</tt></b>(</nobr></td> |
| 92 | <td><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt> |
| 93 | <dd> |
| 94 | Return the encoding specified in the |
| 95 | <span class="mailheader">Content-Transfer-Encoding:</span> message header. If no such |
| 96 | header exists, return <code>'7bit'</code>. The encoding is converted to |
| 97 | lower case. |
| 98 | </dl> |
| 99 | |
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| 101 | <dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"> |
| 102 | <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-4015' xml:id='l2h-4015' class="method">gettype</tt></b>(</nobr></td> |
| 103 | <td><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt> |
| 104 | <dd> |
| 105 | Return the message type (of the form "<tt class="samp"><var>type</var>/<var>subtype</var></tt>") |
| 106 | as specified in the <span class="mailheader">Content-Type:</span> header. If no such |
| 107 | header exists, return <code>'text/plain'</code>. The type is converted to |
| 108 | lower case. |
| 109 | </dl> |
| 110 | |
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| 112 | <dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"> |
| 113 | <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-4016' xml:id='l2h-4016' class="method">getmaintype</tt></b>(</nobr></td> |
| 114 | <td><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt> |
| 115 | <dd> |
| 116 | Return the main type as specified in the <span class="mailheader">Content-Type:</span> |
| 117 | header. If no such header exists, return <code>'text'</code>. The main |
| 118 | type is converted to lower case. |
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| 123 | <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-4017' xml:id='l2h-4017' class="method">getsubtype</tt></b>(</nobr></td> |
| 124 | <td><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt> |
| 125 | <dd> |
| 126 | Return the subtype as specified in the <span class="mailheader">Content-Type:</span> |
| 127 | header. If no such header exists, return <code>'plain'</code>. The subtype |
| 128 | is converted to lower case. |
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