# Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Python Software Foundation
# Contact: email-sig@python.org
"""Base class for MIME specializations."""
from email
import Message
class MIMEBase(Message
.Message
):
"""Base class for MIME specializations."""
def __init__(self
, _maintype
, _subtype
, **_params
):
"""This constructor adds a Content-Type: and a MIME-Version: header.
The Content-Type: header is taken from the _maintype and _subtype
arguments. Additional parameters for this header are taken from the
Message
.Message
.__init
__(self
)
ctype
= '%s/%s' % (_maintype
, _subtype
)
self
.add_header('Content-Type', ctype
, **_params
)
self
['MIME-Version'] = '1.0'