Python code to send an email with an attachment

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I'm trying to automate the sending mail using python. I was successful doing that but I would like to modify it by adding attachments. How do I do that?
Jun 11, 2019 in Python by Vipul
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Hi @Vipul, try out this code. I've given the explanation through the comments.

import smtplib

from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart

from email.mime.text import MIMEText

from email.mime.base import MIMEBase

from email import encoders

from = "sender email address"

to = "receiver email address"

# instance of MIMEMultipart

data = MIMEMultipart()

# storing the senders email address  

data['From'] = from

# storing the receivers email address 

data['To'] = to

# storing the subject 

data['Subject'] = "Subject of the Mail"

# string to store the body of the mail

body = "Body-of-the-mail"

# attach the body with the msg instance

data.attach(MIMEText(body, 'plain'))

# open the file to be sent 

filename = "File-name-with-extension"

attachment = open("Path of the file", "rb")

# instance of MIMEBase and named as p

p = MIMEBase('application', 'octet-stream')

# To change the payload into encoded form

p.set_payload((attachment).read())

# encode into base64

encoders.encode_base64(p)

p.add_header('Content-Disposition', "attachment; filename= %s" % filename)

# attach the instance 'p' to instance 'msg'

data.attach(p)

# creates SMTP session

s = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)

# start TLS for security

s.starttls()

# Authentication

s.login(from, "Password-of-the-sender")

# Converts the Multipart msg into a string

text = data.as_string()

# sending the mail

s.sendmail(from, to, text)

# terminating the session

s.quit()


Hope this helps!!

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answered Jun 11, 2019 by Adil
how to export a google spreadsheet as pdf and attach that pdf in the mail using this API?

Hi, @Aditya,

I would suggest you follow these regarding your query: https://www.labnol.org/code/19869-email-google-spreadsheets-pdf

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