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

Question

I am trying to read email with imaplib. I get this mail body:

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

That is Quoted-printable encoding.
I need to get utf-8 from this. It should be Добрый день!

I googled it, but it is too messy with Python's versions. It is already unicode in Python 3, I cann't use .encode('utf-8') here.

How can I change this to utf-8?

Answer 1

The quopri module can convert those bytes to an unencoded byte stream. You need to then decode those from whatever character set they're in, then encode back to utf-8.

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