1 # Copyright (C) 2002-2006 Python Software Foundation
3 # Contact: email-sig@python.org
5 """Base class for MIME multipart/* type messages."""
7 __all__
= ['MIMEMultipart']
9 from email
.mime
.base
import MIMEBase
13 class MIMEMultipart(MIMEBase
):
14 """Base class for MIME multipart/* type messages."""
16 def __init__(self
, _subtype
='mixed', boundary
=None, _subparts
=None,
18 """Creates a multipart/* type message.
20 By default, creates a multipart/mixed message, with proper
21 Content-Type and MIME-Version headers.
23 _subtype is the subtype of the multipart content type, defaulting to
26 boundary is the multipart boundary string. By default it is
29 _subparts is a sequence of initial subparts for the payload. It
30 must be an iterable object, such as a list. You can always
31 attach new subparts to the message by using the attach() method.
33 Additional parameters for the Content-Type header are taken from the
34 keyword arguments (or passed into the _params argument).
36 MIMEBase
.__init
__(self
, 'multipart', _subtype
, **_params
)
38 # Initialise _payload to an empty list as the Message superclass's
39 # implementation of is_multipart assumes that _payload is a list for
47 self
.set_boundary(boundary
)