formatflowed 2.0.0

RFC 3676 format=flowed text processing

Introduction

The formatflowed.py python library provides en- and decoding functionality for RFC 2646 and RFC 3676 text, also called format=flowed text. The development of this library was generously sponsored by Logicalware, and was written by Martijn Pieters.

The latest version can be downloaded from the pypi page; the code repository is hosted GitHub.

Requirements

formatflowed.py has been tested with python versions 2.6 - 2.7, 3.3 - 3.6 and pypy and pypy3. Installation requires setuptools.

Installation

Use the standard setuptools installation script provided:

python setup.py install

or install the package as an egg:

pip install formatflowed

Usage

Further documentation is embedded in the docstrings of the module.

Change History

2.0.0 (2016-11-29)

• Dropped support for Python < 2.6

• Cleaned up bytes vs. unicode handling to be consistent

• Added official support for Python >= 3.3 and PyPy.

1.1.0 (2012-03-15)

• Made unicode exception handling configurable. [mj]

• Updated project URLs, and cleaned up setup.py. The project is now hosted on GitHub. [mj]

1.0.0 (2005-09-17)

• Added release metadata and a README. [mj]

0.9.0 (2005-09-11)

• Initial release. [mj]