Lib/email/MIMEText.py

   1 # Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Python Software Foundation
   2 # Author: Barry Warsaw
   3 # Contact: email-sig@python.org
   4
   5 """Class representing text/* type MIME documents."""
   6
   7 from email.MIMENonMultipart import MIMENonMultipart
   8 from email.Encoders import encode_7or8bit
   9
  10
  11 \f
  12 class MIMEText(MIMENonMultipart):
  13     """Class for generating text/* type MIME documents."""
  14
  15     def __init__(self, _text, _subtype='plain', _charset='us-ascii'):
  16         """Create a text/* type MIME document.
  17
  18         _text is the string for this message object.
  19
  20         _subtype is the MIME sub content type, defaulting to "plain".
  21
  22         _charset is the character set parameter added to the Content-Type
  23         header.  This defaults to "us-ascii".  Note that as a side-effect, the
  24         Content-Transfer-Encoding header will also be set.
  25         """
  26         MIMENonMultipart.__init__(self, 'text', _subtype,
  27                                   **{'charset': _charset})
  28         self.set_payload(_text, _charset)