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diff --git a/Lib/dos-8x3/mimetool.py b/Lib/dos-8x3/mimetool.py
index fc72c79..27996e0 100755
--- a/Lib/dos-8x3/mimetool.py
+++ b/Lib/dos-8x3/mimetool.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Various tools used by MIME-reading or MIME-writing programs.
+"""Various tools used by MIME-reading or MIME-writing programs."""
import os
@@ -7,10 +7,9 @@
import tempfile
-# A derived class of rfc822.Message that knows about MIME headers and
-# contains some hooks for decoding encoded and multipart messages.
-
class Message(rfc822.Message):
+ """A derived class of rfc822.Message that knows about MIME headers and
+ contains some hooks for decoding encoded and multipart messages."""
def __init__(self, fp, seekable = 1):
rfc822.Message.__init__(self, fp, seekable)
@@ -96,17 +95,17 @@
# -----------------
-# Return a random string usable as a multipart boundary.
-# The method used is so that it is *very* unlikely that the same
-# string of characters will every occur again in the Universe,
-# so the caller needn't check the data it is packing for the
-# occurrence of the boundary.
-#
-# The boundary contains dots so you have to quote it in the header.
-
_prefix = None
def choose_boundary():
+ """Return a random string usable as a multipart boundary.
+ The method used is so that it is *very* unlikely that the same
+ string of characters will every occur again in the Universe,
+ so the caller needn't check the data it is packing for the
+ occurrence of the boundary.
+
+ The boundary contains dots so you have to quote it in the header."""
+
global _prefix
import time
import random
@@ -131,6 +130,7 @@
# Subroutines for decoding some common content-transfer-types
def decode(input, output, encoding):
+ """Decode common content-transfer-encodings (base64, quopri, uuencode)."""
if encoding == 'base64':
import base64
return base64.decode(input, output)
@@ -140,6 +140,8 @@
if encoding in ('uuencode', 'x-uuencode', 'uue', 'x-uue'):
import uu
return uu.decode(input, output)
+ if encoding in ('7bit', '8bit'):
+ output.write(input.read())
if decodetab.has_key(encoding):
pipethrough(input, decodetab[encoding], output)
else:
@@ -147,6 +149,7 @@
'unknown Content-Transfer-Encoding: %s' % encoding
def encode(input, output, encoding):
+ """Encode common content-transfer-encodings (base64, quopri, uuencode)."""
if encoding == 'base64':
import base64
return base64.encode(input, output)
@@ -156,6 +159,8 @@
if encoding in ('uuencode', 'x-uuencode', 'uue', 'x-uue'):
import uu
return uu.encode(input, output)
+ if encoding in ('7bit', '8bit'):
+ output.write(input.read())
if encodetab.has_key(encoding):
pipethrough(input, encodetab[encoding], output)
else: