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# Copyright (C) 2001 Python Software Foundation
# Author: barry@zope.com (Barry Warsaw)
"""Base class for MIME specializations.
"""
import Message
class MIMEBase(Message.Message):
"""Base class for MIME specializations."""
def __init__(self, _major, _minor, **_params):
"""This constructor adds a Content-Type: and a MIME-Version: header.
The Content-Type: header is taken from the _major and _minor
arguments. Additional parameters for this header are taken from the
keyword arguments.
"""
Message.Message.__init__(self)
ctype = '%s/%s' % (_major, _minor)
self.add_header('Content-Type', ctype, **_params)
self['MIME-Version'] = '1.0'