Decoding Internationalised Email Headers

August 10th, 2010
email, python
Every so often someone will email me something where the subject has unicode in it. My naive tools don't know what to do with it, and I see stuff like:
=?UTF-8?Q?[Sociological_Images]_New_Comment_On:_Satter=E2=80=99s_Hierarch?=  =?UTF-8?Q?y_of_Food_Needs?=
It turns out python has a module for this, providing email.header.decode_header. This gives me:
[Sociological_Images] New Comment On: Satter's Hierarchy of Food Needs
So much nicer.

I am continually happily surprised at the fraction of the time that what I want is already implemented in the python standard library.

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