A library that identifies quoted text in plain text and HTML email messages. quotequail has no mandatory dependencies, however using HTML methods require libxml.
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quotequail comes with the functions listed below which are documented in detail
in quotequail's __init__.py.
quote(text): Takes a plain text message as an argument, returns a list of
tuples. The first argument of the tuple denotes whether the text should be
expanded by default. The second argument is the unmodified corresponding
text.quote_html(html): Like quote(), but takes an HTML message as an
argument.unwrap(text): If the passed text is the text body of a forwarded message,
a reply, or contains quoted text, a dictionary is returned, containing the
type (reply/forward/quote), the text at the top/bottom of the wrapped
message, any parsed headers, and the text of the wrapped message.unwrap_html(text): Like unwrap(), but takes an HTML message as an
argument... code:: python
In [1]: import quotequail
In [2]: quotequail.quote("""Hello world.
On 2012-10-16 at 17:02 , Someone someone@example.com wrote:
Some quoted text """) Out[2]: [(True, 'Hello world.\n\nOn 2012-10-16 at 17:02 , Someone someone@example.com wrote:'), (False, '\n> Some quoted text\n')]
In [3]: quotequail.unwrap("""Hello
Begin forwarded message:
From: "Some One" some.one@example.com Date: 1. August 2011 23:28:15 GMT-07:00 To: "Other Person" other@example.com Subject: AW: AW: Some subject
Original text
Text bottom """)) Out[3]: {'date': '1. August 2011 23:28:15 GMT-07:00', 'from': '"Some One" some.one@example.com', 'subject': 'AW: AW: Some subject', 'text': 'Original text', 'text_bottom': 'Text bottom', 'text_top': 'Hello', 'to': '"Other Person" other@example.com', 'type': 'forward'}