step The value of the step parameter (or 1 if the parameter was not supplied)

POP3.getwelcome() Returns the greeting string sent by the POP3 server.

SMTP.verify(address) Check the validity of an address on this server using SMTP VRFY. Returns a tuple consisting of code 250 and a full RFC 822 address (including human name) if the user address is valid. Otherwise returns an SMTP error code of 400 or greater and an error string. Note Many sites disable SMTP VRFY in order to foil spammers.

IMAP4.store(message_set, command, flag_list) Alters flag dispositions for messages in mailbox. command is specified by section 6.4.6 of RFC 2060 as being one of “FLAGS”, “+FLAGS”, or “-FLAGS”, optionally with a suffix of ”.SILENT”. For example, to set the delete flag on all messages: typ, data = M.search(None, 'ALL') for num in data[0].split(): M.store(num, '+FLAGS', '\\Deleted') M.expunge()

sys.setcheckinterval(interval) Set the interpreter’s “check interval”. This integer value determines how often the interpreter checks for periodic things such as thread switches and signal handlers. The default is 100, meaning the check is performed every 100 Python virtual instructions. Setting it to a larger value may increase performance for programs using threads. Setting it to a value <= 0 checks every virtual instruction, maximizing responsiveness as well as overhead. Deprecated si

exception ssl.SSLEOFError A subclass of SSLError raised when the SSL connection has been terminated abruptly. Generally, you shouldn’t try to reuse the underlying transport when this error is encountered. New in version 3.3.

reset() Reset the decoder to the initial state.

exception xml.parsers.expat.error Alias for ExpatError.

requestline Contains the string representation of the HTTP request line. The terminating CRLF is stripped. This attribute should be set by handle_one_request(). If no valid request line was processed, it should be set to the empty string.

Decompress.eof A boolean indicating whether the end of the compressed data stream has been reached. This makes it possible to distinguish between a properly-formed compressed stream, and an incomplete or truncated one. New in version 3.3.