NNTPlib encoding issue

[mohit_ranka]

I am getting unknown encoding like, "=?Utf-8?B?QWRyaWFu?=
<[email protected]>" (quotes for clarity) for name of
the author from nntplib module. which seems like an encoding issue
with NNTPLib module.

What should i do to get author name information in human readable
format.

Thanks and regards,
Mohit Ranka

 

[MRAB]

I am getting unknown encoding like, "=?Utf-8?B?QWRyaWFu?=
<[email protected]>" (quotes for clarity) for name of
the author from nntplib module. which seems like an encoding issue
with NNTPLib module.

What should i do to get author name information in human readable
format.

The original text was encoded in UTF-8 and then into base-64:

=?Utf-8?B?QWRyaWFu?=
^^^^^ UTF-8

=?Utf-8?B?QWRyaWFu?=
^ Base-64

So that's:
u'Adrian'