`email.policy`: Policy Objects¶

在 3.3 版被加入.

The email package's prime focus is the handling of email messages as described by the various email and MIME RFCs. However, the general format of email messages (a block of header fields each consisting of a name followed by a colon followed by a value, the whole block followed by a blank line and an arbitrary 'body'), is a format that has found utility outside of the realm of email. Some of these uses conform fairly closely to the main email RFCs, some do not. Even when working with email, there are times when it is desirable to break strict compliance with the RFCs, such as generating emails that interoperate with email servers that do not themselves follow the standards, or that implement extensions you want to use in ways that violate the standards.

Policy objects give the email package the flexibility to handle all these disparate use cases.

A Policy object encapsulates a set of attributes and methods that control the behavior of various components of the email package during use. Policy instances can be passed to various classes and methods in the email package to alter the default behavior. The settable values and their defaults are described below.

There is a default policy used by all classes in the email package. For all of the parser classes and the related convenience functions, and for the Message class, this is the Compat32 policy, via its corresponding pre-defined instance compat32. This policy provides for complete backward compatibility (in some cases, including bug compatibility) with the pre-Python3.3 version of the email package.

This default value for the policy keyword to EmailMessage is the EmailPolicy policy, via its pre-defined instance default.

When a Message or EmailMessage object is created, it acquires a policy. If the message is created by a parser, a policy passed to the parser will be the policy used by the message it creates. If the message is created by the program, then the policy can be specified when it is created. When a message is passed to a generator, the generator uses the policy from the message by default, but you can also pass a specific policy to the generator that will override the one stored on the message object.

The default value for the policy keyword for the email.parser classes and the parser convenience functions will be changing in a future version of Python. Therefore you should always specify explicitly which policy you want to use when calling any of the classes and functions described in the parser module.

The first part of this documentation covers the features of Policy, an abstract base class that defines the features that are common to all policy objects, including compat32. This includes certain hook methods that are called internally by the email package, which a custom policy could override to obtain different behavior. The second part describes the concrete classes EmailPolicy and Compat32, which implement the hooks that provide the standard behavior and the backward compatible behavior and features, respectively.

Policy instances are immutable, but they can be cloned, accepting the same keyword arguments as the class constructor and returning a new Policy instance that is a copy of the original but with the specified attributes values changed.

As an example, the following code could be used to read an email message from a file on disk and pass it to the system sendmail program on a Unix system:

>>> from email import message_from_binary_file
>>> from email.generator import BytesGenerator
>>> from email import policy
>>> from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
>>> with open('mymsg.txt', 'rb') as f:
...     msg = message_from_binary_file(f, policy=policy.default)
...
>>> p = Popen(['sendmail', msg['To'].addresses[0]], stdin=PIPE)
>>> g = BytesGenerator(p.stdin, policy=msg.policy.clone(linesep='\r\n'))
>>> g.flatten(msg)
>>> p.stdin.close()
>>> rc = p.wait()

Here we are telling BytesGenerator to use the RFC correct line separator characters when creating the binary string to feed into sendmail's stdin, where the default policy would use \n line separators.

Some email package methods accept a policy keyword argument, allowing the policy to be overridden for that method. For example, the following code uses the as_bytes() method of the msg object from the previous example and writes the message to a file using the native line separators for the platform on which it is running:

>>> import os
>>> with open('converted.txt', 'wb') as f:
...     f.write(msg.as_bytes(policy=msg.policy.clone(linesep=os.linesep)))
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Policy objects can also be combined using the addition operator, producing a policy object whose settings are a combination of the non-default values of the summed objects:

>>> compat_SMTP = policy.compat32.clone(linesep='\r\n')
>>> compat_strict = policy.compat32.clone(raise_on_defect=True)
>>> compat_strict_SMTP = compat_SMTP + compat_strict

This operation is not commutative; that is, the order in which the objects are added matters. To illustrate:

>>> policy100 = policy.compat32.clone(max_line_length=100)
>>> policy80 = policy.compat32.clone(max_line_length=80)
>>> apolicy = policy100 + policy80
>>> apolicy.max_line_length
80
>>> apolicy = policy80 + policy100
>>> apolicy.max_line_length
100

class email.policy.Policy(**kw)¶

This is the abstract base class for all policy classes. It provides default implementations for a couple of trivial methods, as well as the implementation of the immutability property, the clone() method, and the constructor semantics.

The constructor of a policy class can be passed various keyword arguments. The arguments that may be specified are any non-method properties on this class, plus any additional non-method properties on the concrete class. A value specified in the constructor will override the default value for the corresponding attribute.

This class defines the following properties, and thus values for the following may be passed in the constructor of any policy class:

max_line_length¶: The maximum length of any line in the serialized output, not counting the end of line character(s). Default is 78, per RFC 5322. A value of 0 or None indicates that no line wrapping should be done at all.

linesep¶: The string to be used to terminate lines in serialized output. The default is \n because that's the internal end-of-line discipline used by Python, though \r\n is required by the RFCs.

cte_type¶

Controls the type of Content Transfer Encodings that may be or are required to be used. The possible values are:

`7bit`	all data must be "7 bit clean" (ASCII-only). This means that where necessary data will be encoded using either quoted-printable or base64 encoding.
`8bit`	data is not constrained to be 7 bit clean. Data in headers is still required to be ASCII-only and so will be encoded (see `fold_binary()` and `utf8` below for exceptions), but body parts may use the `8bit` CTE.

A cte_type value of 8bit only works with BytesGenerator, not Generator, because strings cannot contain binary data. If a Generator is operating under a policy that specifies cte_type=8bit, it will act as if cte_type is 7bit.

raise_on_defect¶: If True, any defects encountered will be raised as errors. If False (the default), defects will be passed to the register_defect() method.

mangle_from_¶: If True, lines starting with "From " in the body are escaped by putting a > in front of them. This parameter is used when the message is being serialized by a generator. Default: False.

在 3.5 版被加入.

message_factory¶: A factory function for constructing a new empty message object. Used by the parser when building messages. Defaults to None, in which case Message is used.

在 3.6 版被加入.

verify_generated_headers¶

If True (the default), the generator will raise HeaderWriteError instead of writing a header that is improperly folded or delimited, such that it would be parsed as multiple headers or joined with adjacent data. Such headers can be generated by custom header classes or bugs in the email module.

As it's a security feature, this defaults to True even in the Compat32 policy. For backwards compatible, but unsafe, behavior, it must be set to False explicitly.

在 3.13 版被加入.

The following Policy method is intended to be called by code using the email library to create policy instances with custom settings:

clone(**kw)¶: Return a new Policy instance whose attributes have the same values as the current instance, except where those attributes are given new values by the keyword arguments.

The remaining Policy methods are called by the email package code, and are not intended to be called by an application using the email package. A custom policy must implement all of these methods.

handle_defect(obj, defect)¶

Handle a defect found on obj. When the email package calls this method, defect will always be a subclass of MessageDefect.

The default implementation checks the raise_on_defect flag. If it is True, defect is raised as an exception. If it is False (the default), obj and defect are passed to register_defect().

register_defect(obj, defect)¶

The default implementation calls the append method of the defects attribute of obj. When the email package calls handle_defect, obj will normally have a defects attribute that has an append method. Custom object types used with the email package (for example, custom Message objects) should also provide such an attribute, otherwise defects in parsed messages will raise unexpected errors.

header_max_count(name)¶

Return the maximum allowed number of headers named name.

Called when a header is added to an EmailMessage or Message object. If the returned value is not 0 or None, and there are already a number of headers with the name name greater than or equal to the value returned, a ValueError is raised.

Because the default behavior of Message.__setitem__ is to append the value to the list of headers, it is easy to create duplicate headers without realizing it. This method allows certain headers to be limited in the number of instances of that header that may be added to a Message programmatically. (The limit is not observed by the parser, which will faithfully produce as many headers as exist in the message being parsed.)

The default implementation returns None for all header names.

header_source_parse(sourcelines)¶: The email package calls this method with a list of strings, each string ending with the line separation characters found in the source being parsed. The first line includes the field header name and separator. All whitespace in the source is preserved. The method should return the (name, value) tuple that is to be stored in the

email.policy: Policy Objects¶

`email.policy`: Policy Objects¶