Change the encoding "Quoted-printable" to "utf-8"

Question

I am trying to read emails using imaplib. I get this body of the letter:

=C4=EE=E1=F0=FB=E9 =E4=E5=ED=FC! 

This is a Quoted-printable encoding.
I need to get utf-8 from this. It should be !

I googled, but this is too messy with Python versions. This is already unicode in Python 3, I cannot use .encode('utf-8') here.

How can I change this to utf-8 ?

Answer 1

The quopri module can convert these bytes to an unencrypted byte stream. Then you need to decode them from any character set in which they are located, and then rewrite them to utf-8 .

 >>> b = quopri.decodestring('=C4=EE=E1=F0=FB=E9 =E4=E5=ED=FC') >>> print(b.decode('windows-1251'))