Python email quoted-printable encoding problem

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You could/should use the email.parser module to decode mail messages, for example (quick and dirty example!):

from email.parser import FeedParser
f = FeedParser()
f.feed("<insert mail message here, including all headers>")
rootMessage = f.close()

# Now you can access the message and its submessages (if it's multipart)
print rootMessage.is_multipart()

# Or check for errors
print rootMessage.defects

# If it's a multipart message, you can get the first submessage and then its payload
# (i.e. content) like so:
rootMessage.get_payload(0).get_payload(decode=True)

Using the “decode” parameter of Message.get_payload, the module automatically decodes the content, depending on its encoding (e.g. quoted printables as in your question).

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