| 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 | """Base class for MIME specializations.""" |
| 6 | |
| 7 | __all__ = ['MIMEBase'] |
| 8 | |
| 9 | from email import message |
| 10 | |
| 11 | |
| 12 | |
| 13 | class MIMEBase(message.Message): |
| 14 | """Base class for MIME specializations.""" |
| 15 | |
| 16 | def __init__(self, _maintype, _subtype, **_params): |
| 17 | """This constructor adds a Content-Type: and a MIME-Version: header. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | The Content-Type: header is taken from the _maintype and _subtype |
| 20 | arguments. Additional parameters for this header are taken from the |
| 21 | keyword arguments. |
| 22 | """ |
| 23 | message.Message.__init__(self) |
| 24 | ctype = '%s/%s' % (_maintype, _subtype) |
| 25 | self.add_header('Content-Type', ctype, **_params) |
| 26 | self['MIME-Version'] = '1.0' |