# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# mail.py
# Copyright (C) 2013 LEAP
#
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"""
Utility functions for email.
"""
import email
import re
def get_email_charset(content, default="utf-8"):
"""
Mini parser to retrieve the charset of an email.
:param content: mail contents
:type content: unicode or str
:param default: optional default value for encoding
:type default: str or None
:returns: the charset as parsed from the contents
:rtype: str
"""
if isinstance(content, unicode):
content.encode("utf-8", "replace")
charset = default
try:
em = email.message_from_string(content)
# Miniparser for: Content-Type: ; charset=
charset_re = r'''charset=(?P[\w|\d|-]*)'''
charset = re.findall(charset_re, em["Content-Type"])[0]
if charset is None or len(charset) == 0:
charset = default
except Exception:
pass
return charset