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12. Internet Data Handling

This chapter describes modules which support handling data formats commonly used on the internet. Some, like SGML and XML, may be useful for other applications as well.

`formatter` | Generic output formatter and device interface.
`rfc822` | Parse RFC 822 style mail headers.
`mimetools` | Tools for parsing MIME-style message bodies.
`MimeWriter` | Generic MIME file writer.
`multifile` | Support for reading files which contain distinct parts, such as some MIME data.
`binhex` | Encode and decode files in binhex4 format.
`uu` | Encode and decode files in uuencode format.
`binascii` | Tools for converting between binary and various ASCII<#29091#><#29091#>-encoded binary representations.
`xdrlib` | Encoders and decoders for the External Data Representation (XDR).
`mailcap` | Mailcap file handling.
`mimetypes` | Mapping of filename extensions to MIME types.
`base64` | Encode and decode files using the MIME base64 data.
`quopri` | Encode and decode files using the MIME quoted-printable encoding.
`mailbox` | Read various mailbox formats.
`mhlib` | Manipulate MH mailboxes from Python.
`mimify` | Mimification and unmimification of mail messages.
`netrc` | Loading of .netrc files.
`robotparser` | Accepts as input a list of lines or URL that refers to a robots.txt file, parses the file, then builds a set of rules from that list and answers questions about fetchability of other URLs.