12.3.1 Additional Methods of Message Objects
















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12.3.1 Additional Methods of Message Objects




The Message class defines the following methods in
addition to the rfc822.Message methods:


getplist ()

Return the parameter list of the content-type header. This is
a list of strings. For parameters of the form
"key=value", key is converted to lower case but
value is not. For example, if the message contains the header
"Content-type: text/html; spam=1; Spam=2; Spam" then
getplist() will return the Python list ['spam=1',
'spam=2', 'Spam'].



getparam (name)

Return the value of the first parameter (as returned by
getplist() of the form "name=value" for the
given name. If value is surrounded by quotes of the form
`<...>' or `"..."', these are removed.



getencoding ()

Return the encoding specified in the content-transfer-encoding
message header. If no such header exists, return '7bit'. The
encoding is converted to lower case.



gettype ()

Return the message type (of the form "type/subtype")
as specified in the content-type header. If no such header
exists, return 'text/plain'. The type is converted to lower
case.



getmaintype ()

Return the main type as specified in the content-type header.
If no such header exists, return 'text'. The main type is
converted to lower case.



getsubtype ()

Return the subtype as specified in the content-type header. If
no such header exists, return 'plain'. The subtype is
converted to lower case.







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