To decode the Subject =?iso-8859-2?Q?=... in email in python

[Max M]

Dan Polansky wrote:
> When parsing messages using python's libraries email and mailbox, the
> subject is often encoded using some kind of = notation. Apparently, the
> encoding used in this notation is specified like =?iso-8859-2?Q?=... or
> =?iso-8859-2?B?=. Is there a python library function to decode such a
> subject, returning a unicode string? The use would be like
> 
>   human_readable = cool_library.decode_equals(message['Subject'])


     parts = email.Header.decode_header(header)
     new_header = email.Header.make_header(parts)
     human_readable = unicode(new_header)



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