py-message-headers

Reason this exists

Wouldn't it be better to retrieve Http header information using a Http header constants, like this request_headers.get(http.REFERER). Constants such as http.REFERER for the string Referer reduces typos, and having to remember the exact spelling for Http headers.

This library does the following:

• Refers to the list of headers registered with IANA: https://www.iana.org/assignments/message-headers/message-headers.xhtml . The definitions are available for download, as CSV files. These files are present in the references folder.
• Generates the headers, under the headers package, using the locally available CSV references files.

Usage

from headers import http, mime

...
request_headers.get(http.HOST) # provides access to the 'Host' header from the request
mail_headers.get(mime.Content_Location)
...

Other libraries

• 'Http lazy headers': which also provides validation, and formatting options to the values that can be set to the Headers: https://github.com/nitely/http-lazy-headers