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12.6.1 Additional Methods of Message Objects
The
<tt class=
"class">Message
</tt> class defines the following methods in
addition to the
<tt class=
"class">rfc822.Message
</tt> methods:
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<td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-
4012' xml:id='l2h-
4012'
class=
"method">getplist
</tt></b>(
</nobr></td>
<td><var></var>)
</td></tr></table></dt>
Return the parameter list of the
<span class=
"mailheader">Content-Type:
</span> header.
This is a list of strings. For parameters of the form
"<tt class="samp
"><var>key</var>=<var>value</var></tt>",
<var>key
</var> is converted to lower case but
<var>value
</var> is not. For example, if the message contains the header
"<tt class="samp
">Content-type: text/html; spam=1; Spam=2; Spam</tt>" then
<tt class=
"method">getplist()
</tt> will return the Python list
<code>['spam=
1',
'spam=
2', 'Spam']
</code>.
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<td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-
4013' xml:id='l2h-
4013'
class=
"method">getparam
</tt></b>(
</nobr></td>
<td><var>name
</var>)
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Return the
<var>value
</var> of the first parameter (as returned by
<tt class=
"method">getplist()
</tt>) of the form
"<tt class="samp
"><var>name</var>=<var>value</var></tt>" for the
given
<var>name
</var>. If
<var>value
</var> is surrounded by quotes of the form
`
<code><</code>...
<code>></code>' or `
<code>"</code>...<code>"</code>', these are removed.
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<td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-
4014' xml:id='l2h-
4014'
class=
"method">getencoding
</tt></b>(
</nobr></td>
<td><var></var>)
</td></tr></table></dt>
Return the encoding specified in the
<span class=
"mailheader">Content-Transfer-Encoding:
</span> message header. If no such
header exists, return
<code>'
7bit'
</code>. The encoding is converted to
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<td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-
4015' xml:id='l2h-
4015'
class=
"method">gettype
</tt></b>(
</nobr></td>
<td><var></var>)
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Return the message type (of the form
"<tt class="samp
"><var>type</var>/<var>subtype</var></tt>")
as specified in the
<span class=
"mailheader">Content-Type:
</span> header. If no such
header exists, return
<code>'text/plain'
</code>. The type is converted to
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"0"><tr valign=
"baseline">
<td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-
4016' xml:id='l2h-
4016'
class=
"method">getmaintype
</tt></b>(
</nobr></td>
<td><var></var>)
</td></tr></table></dt>
Return the main type as specified in the
<span class=
"mailheader">Content-Type:
</span>
header. If no such header exists, return
<code>'text'
</code>. The main
type is converted to lower case.
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"0" cellspacing=
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<td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-
4017' xml:id='l2h-
4017'
class=
"method">getsubtype
</tt></b>(
</nobr></td>
<td><var></var>)
</td></tr></table></dt>
Return the subtype as specified in the
<span class=
"mailheader">Content-Type:
</span>
header. If no such header exists, return
<code>'plain'
</code>. The subtype
is converted to lower case.
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