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+# Copyright (C) 2001 Python Software Foundation
+# Author: barry@zope.com (Barry Warsaw)
+
+"""Class representing message/* MIME documents.
+"""
+
+import Message
+import MIMEBase
+
+
+
+class MIMEMessage(MIMEBase.MIMEBase):
+ """Class representing message/* MIME documents."""
+
+ def __init__(self, _msg, _subtype='rfc822'):
+ """Create a message/* type MIME document.
+
+ _msg is a message object and must be an instance of Message, or a
+ derived class of Message, otherwise a TypeError is raised.
+
+ Optional _subtype defines the subtype of the contained message. The
+ default is "rfc822" (this is defined by the MIME standard, even though
+ the term "rfc822" is technically outdated by RFC 2822).
+ """
+ MIMEBase.MIMEBase.__init__(self, 'message', _subtype)
+ if not isinstance(_msg, Message.Message):
+ raise TypeError, 'Argument is not an instance of Message'
+ self.set_payload(_msg)