:mod:`email`: Examples
Here are a few examples of how to use the :mod:`email` package to read, write, and send simple email messages, as well as more complex MIME messages.
First, let's see how to create and send a simple text message (both the text content and the addresses may contain unicode characters):
.. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-simple.py
Parsing RFC 822 headers can easily be done by the using the classes from the :mod:`~email.parser` module:
.. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-headers.py
Here's an example of how to send a MIME message containing a bunch of family pictures that may be residing in a directory:
.. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-mime.py
Here's an example of how to send the entire contents of a directory as an email message: [1]
.. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-dir.py
Here's an example of how to unpack a MIME message like the one above, into a directory of files:
.. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-unpack.py
Here's an example of how to create an HTML message with an alternative plain text version. To make things a bit more interesting, we include a related image in the html part, and we save a copy of what we are going to send to disk, as well as sending it.
.. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-alternative.py
If we were sent the message from the last example, here is one way we could process it:
.. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-read-alternative.py
Up to the prompt, the output from the above is:
To: Penelope Pussycat <penelope@example.com>, Fabrette Pussycat <fabrette@example.com>
From: Pepé Le Pew <pepe@example.com>
Subject: Pourquoi pas des asperges pour ce midi ?
Salut!
Cette recette [1] sera sûrement un très bon repas.
Footnotes
| [1] | Thanks to Matthew Dixon Cowles for the original inspiration and examples. |