IMAP folder path encoding (IMAP UTF-7) for Python

Question

I would like to know if any \"official\" function/library existed in Python for IMAP4 UTF-7 folder path encoding.

In the imapInstance.list() I get the f

Answer 1

You may use imap_tools package: https://pypi.org/project/imap-tools/

from imap_tools.imap_utf7 import encode, decode
print(encode('привет'))
>>> b'&BD8EQAQ4BDIENQRC-'
print(decode(b'&BD8EQAQ4BDIENQRC-'))
>>> привет

print(repr(decode(encode("foo\rbar\n\n\n\r\r"))))
'foo\rbar\n\n\n\r\r'