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

You do not need your hack:

import email

# Construct a new charset which uses Quoted Printables (base64 is default)
cs = email.charset.Charset('utf-8')
cs.body_encoding = email.charset.QP

m = email.mime.text.MIMEText(u'This is the text containing ünicöde', 'plain', _charset=cs)

print(m.as_string())