Quoted-Printed Encoding

The quopri module

  • Encodes and decodes text in "quoted-printable" format
  • Commonly used to encode text-documents in mail messages
  • Yep, same general idea

Encoding

     import quopri
     quopri.encode(inputfile,outputfile)

Decoding

     import quopri
     quopri.decode(inputfile,outputfile)
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