Method parsebytes

Lib/email/parser.py:110–119

Create a message structure from a byte string. Returns the root of the message structure. Optional headersonly is a flag specifying whether to stop parsing after reading the headers or not. The default is False, meaning it parses the entire contents of the file.

(self, text, headersonly=False)

    def parsebytes(self, text, headersonly=False):
        """Create a message structure from a byte string.

        Returns the root of the message structure.  Optional headersonly is a
        flag specifying whether to stop parsing after reading the headers or
        not.  The default is False, meaning it parses the entire contents of
        the file.
        """
        text = text.decode('ASCII', errors='surrogateescape')
        return self.parser.parsestr(text, headersonly)


class BytesHeaderParser(BytesParser):