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): Likequote(), 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): Likeunwrap(), but takes an HTML message as an argument.
In [1]: import quotequail
In [2]: quotequail.quote("""Hello world.
On 2012-10-16 at 17:02 , Someone <[email protected]> wrote:
> Some quoted text
""")
Out[2]:
[(True, 'Hello world.\n\nOn 2012-10-16 at 17:02 , Someone <[email protected]> wrote:'),
(False, '\n> Some quoted text\n')]
In [3]: quotequail.unwrap("""Hello
Begin forwarded message:
> From: "Some One" <[email protected]>
> Date: 1. August 2011 23:28:15 GMT-07:00
> To: "Other Person" <[email protected]>
> Subject: AW: AW: Some subject
>
> Original text
Text bottom
"""))
Out[3]:
{'date': '1. August 2011 23:28:15 GMT-07:00',
'from': '"Some One" <[email protected]>',
'subject': 'AW: AW: Some subject',
'text': 'Original text',
'text_bottom': 'Text bottom',
'text_top': 'Hello',
'to': '"Other Person" <[email protected]>',
'type': 'forward'}