quotequail

0.4.0 verified Fri May 01 auth: no python maintenance

A library that identifies quoted text in plain text and HTML email messages. Current version: 0.4.0. Release cadence: low, last release in 2021.

pip install quotequail

Common errors

error ImportError: No module named 'quotequail' ↓

cause The package is not installed.

fix

Run 'pip install quotequail'.

error AttributeError: module 'quotequail' has no attribute 'quote_text' ↓

cause Import path is wrong or version is too old.

fix

Use 'from quotequail import quote_text' (version 0.2.0+). For older versions, use 'import quotequail; quotequail.quote_text'.

Warnings

gotcha quote_text returns a dict with keys 'text' and 'html' (even for plain text). For HTML input, 'text' is None. ↓

fix Always access result['text'] or result['html'] depending on input type.

gotcha unquote may not perfectly handle all edge cases, like nested quotes or custom email formats. ↓

fix Test with your specific email format and consider fallback parsing.

deprecated Python 3.6 and earlier are not supported; requires Python 3.7+. ↓

fix Upgrade Python to 3.7 or later.

Imports

quote_text
```
from quotequail import quote_text
```
Main function to identify quoted text.
unquote
```
from quotequail import unquote
```
Function to strip quoted text and return the original text.

Quickstart

Identify and remove quoted text from an email message.

from quotequail import quote_text, unquote

text = """On Mon, Jan 1, 2020 at 12:00 PM, John <john@example.com> wrote:
> This is a quoted line.
> Another quoted line.
This is the reply."""

result = quote_text(text)
print("Quoted text:", result)

plain = unquote(text)
print("Unquoted text:", plain)"""