Encode MIMEText as quoted printables

Question

Python supports a quite functional MIME-Library called email.mime.

What I want to achieve is to get a MIME Part containing plain UTF-8 text to be encod

Answer 1

Adapted from issue 1525919 and tested on python 2.7:

from email.Message import Message
from email.Charset import Charset, QP

text = "\xc3\xa1 = \xc3\xa9"
msg = Message()

charset = Charset('utf-8')
charset.header_encoding = QP
charset.body_encoding = QP

msg.set_charset(charset)
msg.set_payload(msg._charset.body_encode(text))

print msg.as_string()

will give you:

MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

=C3=A1 =3D =C3=A9

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