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Example of using Python's email module to build an email message object containing a subject, body, attachments, and images.
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import os | |
from email.mime.text import MIMEText | |
from email.mime.image import MIMEImage | |
from email.mime.application import MIMEApplication | |
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart | |
def message(subject="Python Notification", text="", img=None, attachment=None): | |
# build message contents | |
msg = MIMEMultipart() | |
msg['Subject'] = subject # add in the subject | |
msg.attach(MIMEText(text)) # add text contents | |
# check if we have anything given in the img parameter | |
if img is not None: | |
# if we do, we want to iterate through the images, so let's check that | |
# what we have is actually a list | |
if type(img) is not list: | |
img = [img] # if it isn't a list, make it one | |
# now iterate through our list | |
for one_img in img: | |
img_data = open(one_img, 'rb').read() # read the image binary data | |
# attach the image data to MIMEMultipart using MIMEImage, we add | |
# the given filename use os.basename | |
msg.attach(MIMEImage(img_data, name=os.path.basename(one_img))) | |
# we do the same for attachments as we did for images | |
if attachment is not None: | |
if type(attachment) is not list: | |
attachment = [attachment] # if it isn't a list, make it one | |
for one_attachment in attachment: | |
with open(one_attachment, 'rb') as f: | |
# read in the attachment using MIMEApplication | |
file = MIMEApplication( | |
f.read(), | |
name=os.path.basename(one_attachment) | |
) | |
# here we edit the attached file metadata | |
file['Content-Disposition'] = f'attachment; filename="{os.path.basename(one_attachment)}"' | |
msg.attach(file) # finally, add the attachment to our message object | |
return msg |
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