module(email)

# Copyright (C) 2001-2007 Python Software Foundation
# Author: Barry Warsaw
# Contact: email-sig@python.org

"""A package for parsing, handling, and generating email messages."""

__all__ = [
    'message_from_file',
    'message_from_binary_file',
    'message_from_string',
    'message_from_bytes',
    ]

# Some convenience routines.  Don't import Parser and Message as side-effects
# of importing email since those cascadingly import most of the rest of the
# email package.
def message_from_string(s, *args, **kws):
    """Parse a string into a Message object model.

    Optional _class and strict are passed to the Parser constructor.
    """
    import email
    return email.Parser(*args, **kws).parsestr(s)

def message_from_bytes(s, *args, **kws):
    """Parse a bytes string into a Message object model.

    Optional _class and strict are passed to the Parser constructor.
    """
    import email
    return email.BytesParser(*args, **kws).parsebytes(s)

def message_from_file(fp, *args, **kws):
    """Read a file and parse its contents into a Message object model.

    Optional _class and strict are passed to the Parser constructor.
    """
    import email
    return email.Parser(*args, **kws).parse(fp)

def message_from_binary_file(fp, *args, **kws):
    """Read a binary file and parse its contents into a Message object model.

    Optional _class and strict are passed to the Parser constructor.
    """
    import email
    return email.BytesParser(*args, **kws).parse(fp)