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From: cs@cskk.id.au (Cameron Simpson)
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Subject: Re: email.message_from_file & quoted printable
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2021 09:55:14 +1100
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by: Cameron Simpson - Thu, 23 Dec 2021 22:55 UTC

On 23Dec2021 14:50, Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> wrote:
>I have a bunch of old email archives I'm messing around with, for example,
>rendering them on-demand in HTML. Some of the files use quoted printable
>content transfer encoding. Here's one (with a number of headers elided):
[...]
>This message is stored in a file. I read it using
>email.message_from_file.
>In the example above, the payload still retains the quoted printable bits.
>Maybe it's not correctly encoded (no "=20" at the end of the second
>paragraph, for example)

That seems legit, as it is a space in the message text.

>, but I would have thought the email package would
>do what it could to decode things, but nope:
>
>>>> print(msg.get_payload())

From the docs:

get_payload(i=None, decode=False)

Return the current payload, which will be a list of Message
objects when is_multipart() is True, or a string when is_multipart()
is False. [...]
Optional decode is a flag indicating whether the payload should
be decoded or not, according to the Content-Transfer-Encoding
header. When True and the message is not a multipart, the payload
will be decoded if this header’s value is quoted-printable or
base64.

Try decode=True.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs@cskk.id.au>

New crypt. See /usr/news/crypt.

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