New submission from Marko Lalic: When the message's Content-Transfer-Encoding is set to 8bit, the get_payload(decode=True) method returns the payload encoded using raw-unicode-escape. This means that it is impossible to decode the returned bytes using the content charset obtained by the get_content_charset method.
It seems this should be fixed so that get_payload returns the bytes as found in the payload when Content-Transfer-Encoding is 8bit, exactly like Python2.7 handles it. >>> from email import message_from_string >>> message = message_from_string("""MIME-Version: 1.0 ... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 ... Content-Disposition: inline ... Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit ... ... ünicöde data..""") >>> message.get_content_charset() 'utf-8' >>> message.get_payload(decode=True) b'\xfcnic\xf6de data..' >>> message.get_payload(decode=True).decode(message.get_content_charset()) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xfc in position 0: invalid start byte >>> message.get_payload(decode=True).decode('raw-unicode-escape') 'ünicöde data..' ---------- components: email messages: 191526 nosy: barry, mlalic, r.david.murray priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: get_payload method returns bytes which cannot be decoded using the message's charset type: behavior versions: Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18271> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com