twisted.mail.pop3._HeadersPlusNLines

A utility class to retrieve the header and some lines of the body of a mail message.

Instance Variable	linecount	The number of full lines of the message body scanned. (type: `int`)
Instance Variable	headers	An indication of which part of the message is being scanned. `True` for the header and `False` for the body. (type: `bool`)
Instance Variable	done	A flag indicating when the desired part of the message has been scanned. (type: `bool`)
Instance Variable	buf	The portion of the message body that has been scanned, up to `n` lines. (type: `bytes`)
Method	__init__
Method	read	Scan bytes from the file.
Instance Variable	_file	See `__init__`
Instance Variable	_extraLines	See `__init__`

_file =

See __init__

_extraLines =

See __init__

linecount =

The number of full lines of the message body scanned. (type: int)

headers =

An indication of which part of the message is being scanned. True for the header and False for the body. (type: bool)

done =

A flag indicating when the desired part of the message has been scanned. (type: bool)

buf =

The portion of the message body that has been scanned, up to n lines. (type: bytes)

def __init__(self, file, extraLines):

Parameters	file	A file containing a mail message. (type: file-like object)
	extraLines	The number of lines of the message body to retrieve. (type: `int`)

def read(self, bytes):

Scan bytes from the file.

Parameters	bytes	The number of bytes to read from the file. (type: `int`)
Returns	Each portion of the header as it is scanned. Then, full lines of the message body as they are scanned. When more than one line of the header and/or body has been scanned, the result is the concatenation of the lines. When the scan results in no full lines, the empty string is returned. (type: `bytes`)

API Documentation for twisted, generated by pydoctor at 2020-03-25 17:34:30.

twisted.mail.pop3._HeadersPlusNLines class documentation