Lib/email/mime/base.py

   1 # Copyright (C) 2001-2006 Python Software Foundation
   2 # Author: Barry Warsaw
   3 # Contact: email-sig@python.org
   4
   5 """Base class for MIME specializations."""
   6
   7 __all__ = ['MIMEBase']
   8
   9 from email import message
  10
  11
  12 \f
  13 class MIMEBase(message.Message):
  14     """Base class for MIME specializations."""
  15
  16     def __init__(self, _maintype, _subtype, **_params):
  17         """This constructor adds a Content-Type: and a MIME-Version: header.
  18
  19         The Content-Type: header is taken from the _maintype and _subtype
  20         arguments.  Additional parameters for this header are taken from the
  21         keyword arguments.
  22         """
  23         message.Message.__init__(self)
  24         ctype = '%s/%s' % (_maintype, _subtype)
  25         self.add_header('Content-Type', ctype, **_params)
  26         self['MIME-Version'] = '1.0'