Lib/email/MIMEBase.py

   1 # Copyright (C) 2001,2002 Python Software Foundation
   2 # Author: barry@zope.com (Barry Warsaw)
   3
   4 """Base class for MIME specializations.
   5 """
   6
   7 from email import Message
   8
   9
  10 \f
  11 class MIMEBase(Message.Message):
  12     """Base class for MIME specializations."""
  13
  14     def __init__(self, _maintype, _subtype, **_params):
  15         """This constructor adds a Content-Type: and a MIME-Version: header.
  16
  17         The Content-Type: header is taken from the _maintype and _subtype
  18         arguments.  Additional parameters for this header are taken from the
  19         keyword arguments.
  20         """
  21         Message.Message.__init__(self)
  22         ctype = '%s/%s' % (_maintype, _subtype)
  23         self.add_header('Content-Type', ctype, **_params)
  24         self['MIME-Version'] = '1.0'