Python email quoted-printable encoding problem

Question

I am extracting emails from Gmail using the following:

def getMsgs():
 try:
    conn = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(\"imap.gmail.com\", 993)
  except:
    print \'Faile         


        

Answer 1

You could/should use the email.parser module to decode mail messages, for example (quick and dirty example!):

from email.parser import FeedParser
f = FeedParser()
f.feed("")
rootMessage = f.close()

# Now you can access the message and its submessages (if it's multipart)
print rootMessage.is_multipart()

# Or check for errors
print rootMessage.defects

# If it's a multipart message, you can get the first submessage and then its payload
# (i.e. content) like so:
rootMessage.get_payload(0).get_payload(decode=True)

Using the "decode" parameter of Message.get_payload, the module automatically decodes the content, depending on its encoding (e.g. quoted printables as in your question).