# Copyright (C) 2001-2006 Python Software Foundation # Author: Barry Warsaw # Contact: email-sig@python.org """Class representing text/* type MIME documents.""" __all__ = ['MIMEText'] from email.mime.nonmultipart import MIMENonMultipart class MIMEText(MIMENonMultipart): """Class for generating text/* type MIME documents.""" def __init__(self, _text, _subtype='plain', _charset=None, *, policy=None): """Create a text/* type MIME document. _text is the string for this message object. _subtype is the MIME sub content type, defaulting to "plain". _charset is the character set parameter added to the Content-Type header. This defaults to "us-ascii". Note that as a side-effect, the Content-Transfer-Encoding header will also be set. """ # If no _charset was specified, check to see if there are non-ascii # characters present. If not, use 'us-ascii', otherwise use utf-8. # XXX: This can be removed once #7304 is fixed. if _charset is None: try: _text.encode('us-ascii') _charset = 'us-ascii' except UnicodeEncodeError: _charset = 'utf-8' MIMENonMultipart.__init__(self, 'text', _subtype, policy=policy, charset=str(_charset)) self.set_payload(_text, _charset)