Parse raw HTTP Headers

Question

I have a string of raw HTTP and I would like to represent the fields in an object. Is there any way to parse the individual headers from an HTTP string?

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Answer 1

mimetools has been deprecated since Python 2.3 and totally removed from Python 3 (link).

Here is how you should do in Python 3:

import email
import io
import pprint

# […]

request_line, headers_alone = request_text.split('\r\n', 1)
message = email.message_from_file(io.StringIO(headers_alone))
headers = dict(message.items())
pprint.pprint(headers, width=160)