| Guido van Rossum | 8b3febe | 2007-08-30 01:15:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | # Copyright (C) 2001-2006 Python Software Foundation |
| 2 | # Author: Barry Warsaw |
| 3 | # Contact: email-sig@python.org |
| 4 | |
| 5 | """Class representing message/* MIME documents.""" |
| 6 | |
| 7 | __all__ = ['MIMEMessage'] |
| 8 | |
| 9 | from email import message |
| 10 | from email.mime.nonmultipart import MIMENonMultipart |
| 11 | |
| 12 | |
| 13 | |
| 14 | class MIMEMessage(MIMENonMultipart): |
| 15 | """Class representing message/* MIME documents.""" |
| 16 | |
| 17 | def __init__(self, _msg, _subtype='rfc822'): |
| 18 | """Create a message/* type MIME document. |
| 19 | |
| 20 | _msg is a message object and must be an instance of Message, or a |
| 21 | derived class of Message, otherwise a TypeError is raised. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | Optional _subtype defines the subtype of the contained message. The |
| 24 | default is "rfc822" (this is defined by the MIME standard, even though |
| 25 | the term "rfc822" is technically outdated by RFC 2822). |
| 26 | """ |
| 27 | MIMENonMultipart.__init__(self, 'message', _subtype) |
| 28 | if not isinstance(_msg, message.Message): |
| 29 | raise TypeError('Argument is not an instance of Message') |
| 30 | # It's convenient to use this base class method. We need to do it |
| 31 | # this way or we'll get an exception |
| 32 | message.Message.attach(self, _msg) |
| 33 | # And be sure our default type is set correctly |
| 34 | self.set_default_type('message/rfc822') |