taken as the parameter name, with underscores converted to dashes (since
dashes are illegal in Python identifiers). Normally, the parameter will
be added as ``key="value"`` unless the value is ``None``, in which case
- only the key will be added.
+ only the key will be added. If the value contains non-ASCII characters,
+ it must be specified as a three tuple in the format
+ ``(CHARSET, LANGUAGE, VALUE)``, where ``CHARSET`` is a string naming the
+ charset to be used to encode the value, ``LANGUAGE`` can usually be set
+ to ``None`` or the empty string (see :RFC:`2231` for other possibilities),
+ and ``VALUE`` is the string value containing non-ASCII code points.
Here's an example::
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="bud.gif"
+ An example with with non-ASCII characters::
+
+ msg.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment',
+ filename=('iso-8859-1', '', 'Fußballer.ppt'))
+
+ Which produces ::
+
+ Content-Disposition: attachment; filename*="iso-8859-1''Fu%DFballer.ppt"
+
.. method:: replace_header(_name, _value)
:rfc:`2231`, you can collapse the parameter value by calling
:func:`email.utils.collapse_rfc2231_value`, passing in the return value
from :meth:`get_param`. This will return a suitably decoded Unicode
- string whn the value is a tuple, or the original string unquoted if it
+ string when the value is a tuple, or the original string unquoted if it
isn't. For example::
rawparam = msg.get_param('foo')
def _formatparam(param, value=None, quote=True):
"""Convenience function to format and return a key=value pair.
- This will quote the value if needed or if quote is true.
+ This will quote the value if needed or if quote is true. If value is a
+ three tuple (charset, language, value), it will be encoded according
+ to RFC2231 rules.
"""
if value is not None and len(value) > 0:
# A tuple is used for RFC 2231 encoded parameter values where items
name is the header field to add. keyword arguments can be used to set
additional parameters for the header field, with underscores converted
to dashes. Normally the parameter will be added as key="value" unless
- value is None, in which case only the key will be added.
+ value is None, in which case only the key will be added. If a
+ parameter value contains non-ASCII characters it must be specified as a
+ three-tuple of (charset, language, value), in which case it will be
+ encoded according to RFC2231 rules.
Example:
s = 'Subject: =?EUC-KR?B?CSixpLDtKSC/7Liuvsax4iC6uLmwMcijIKHaILzSwd/H0SC8+LCjwLsgv7W/+Mj3I ?='
raises(Errors.HeaderParseError, decode_header, s)
+ # Issue 1078919
+ def test_ascii_add_header(self):
+ msg = Message()
+ msg.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment',
+ filename='bud.gif')
+ self.assertEqual('attachment; filename="bud.gif"',
+ msg['Content-Disposition'])
+
+ def test_nonascii_add_header_via_triple(self):
+ msg = Message()
+ msg.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment',
+ filename=('iso-8859-1', '', 'Fu\xdfballer.ppt'))
+ self.assertEqual(
+ 'attachment; filename*="iso-8859-1\'\'Fu%DFballer.ppt"',
+ msg['Content-Disposition'])
# Test RFC 2231 header parameters (en/de)coding