email.message_from_file & quoted printable

[Cameron Simpson]

On 23Dec2021 14:50, Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>I have a bunch of old email archives I'm messing around with, for example,
>rendering them on-demand in HTML. Some of the files use quoted printable
>content transfer encoding. Here's one (with a number of headers elided):
[...]
>This message is stored in a file. I read it using 
>email.message_from_file.
>In the example above, the payload still retains the quoted printable bits.
>Maybe it's not correctly encoded (no "=20" at the end of the second
>paragraph, for example)

That seems legit, as it is a space in the message text.

>, but I would have thought the email package would
>do what it could to decode things, but nope:
>
>>>> print(msg.get_payload())

From the docs:

 get_payload(i=None, decode=False)

    Return the current payload, which will be a list of Message
    objects when is_multipart() is True, or a string when is_multipart()
    is False. [...]
    Optional decode is a flag indicating whether the payload should
    be decoded or not, according to the Content-Transfer-Encoding
    header. When True and the message is not a multipart, the payload
    will be decoded if this header’s value is quoted-printable or
    base64.

Try decode=True.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>