Thank you Neil, that is what I needed.
B. Neil Hodgson wrote: > > >>> import email.Header > >>> x = '=?iso-8859-1?q?somefile=2ezip?=' > >>> email.Header.decode_header(x) > [('somefile.zip', 'iso-8859-1')] > > Neil -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list