Decoding Email Header and Contents

 Posted on October 15, 2020  (Last modified on November 2, 2020)  |   1 min  |   52 words  |   Bas-Man

Using email.parser and email.policy along with policy.default means that you do not need to worry about character encoding as the modules will take care of it automatically.

I forget where I saw it but I believe that policy.default will become the real default in the future.
Current policy.compat32 is the module default.

Tags: Python Email Extract Decode