Democritus Emails

Democritus functions^[1] for working with emails.

[1] Democritus functions are simple, effective, modular, well-tested, and well-documented Python functions.

We use d8s (pronounced "dee-eights") as an abbreviation for democritus (you can read more about this here).

Installation

pip install d8s-emails

Usage

You import the library like:

from d8s_emails import *

Once imported, you can use any of the functions listed below.

Functions

• def is_email(possible_email_text: str) -> bool:
      """Determine if the given string is an email."""
  

• def email_header_date_fix(email_text: str):
      """Fix the `Date` header in the given email email_text."""
  

• def email_read(email_string: str):
      """."""
  

• def email_object_new():
      """."""
  

• def email_content_transfer_encoding(email_text):
      """Get the content-transfer-encoding for the email (see https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc1341/5_Content-Transfer-Encoding.html)."""
  

• def email_bodies_as_strings(email_text):
      """Return the bodies (as strings) for the given email."""
  

• def email_bodies_as_objects(email_text):
      """Return the bodies (as objects) for the given email."""
  

• def email_attachments(email_text):
      """Return the attachments (as strings) for the given email."""
  

• def email_attachments_objects(email_text):
      """Return the attachments (as objects) for the given email."""
  

• def email_body_is_base64(email_text):
      """Determine if the body of the email is encoded using base64."""
  

• def email_header_fields(email_text):
      """Get the header fields in the email."""
  

• def email_headers(email_text):
      """Get the values of the header fields in the email."""
  

• def email_headers_raw(email_text):
      """Get the raw (undecoded) values of the header fields in the email."""
  

• def email_headers_as_dict(email_text) -> Dict[str, List[str]]:
      """Return email's header fields as a dictionary with the header field key as the dictionary's key and the header field value as the dictionary's value."""
  

• def email_header(email_text, header_field):
      """Get the value(s) for the given header fields."""
  

• def email_header_delete_field(email_text, header_field):
      """Delete the header_field from the email_text."""
  

• def email_structure(email_text):
      """Get the structure of the email (this function was inspired by the function here: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/4993cc0a5b34dc91da2b41c50e33d809f0191355/Lib/email/iterators.py#L59 - which is described here: https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/email.iterators.html?highlight=_structure#email.iterators._structure)."""
  

• def email_header_add_raw(email, header_name, header_value):
      """Add a header to the email."""
  

• def email_header_add(email, header_name, header_value):
      """Add a header to the email."""
  

Development

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If you have any questions or there is anything we did not cover, please raise an issue and we'll be happy to help.

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and Floyd Hightower's Python project template.