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I have looked through many tutorials, as well as other question here on stack overflow, and the documentation and explanation are at minimum, just unexplained code. I would like to send a file that I already have zipped, and send it as an attachment. I have tried copy and pasting the code provided, but its not working, hence I cannot fix the problem.
So what I am asking is if anyone knows who to explain how smtplib as well as email and MIME libraries work together to send a file, more specifically, how to do it with a zip file. Any help would be appreciated.
This is the code that everyone refers to:
import smtplib
import zipfile
import tempfile
from email import encoders
from email.message import Message
from email.mime.base import MIMEBase
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
def send_file_zipped(the_file, recipients, sender='[email protected]'):
myzip = zipfile.ZipFile('file.zip', 'w')
# Create the message
themsg = MIMEMultipart()
themsg['Subject'] = 'File %s' % the_file
themsg['To'] = ', '.join(recipients)
themsg['From'] = sender
themsg.preamble = 'I am not using a MIME-aware mail reader.\n'
msg = MIMEBase('application', 'zip')
msg.set_payload(zf.read())
encoders.encode_base64(msg)
msg.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment',
filename=the_file + '.zip')
themsg.attach(msg)
themsg = themsg.as_string()
# send the message
smtp = smtplib.SMTP()
smtp.connect()
smtp.sendmail(sender, recipients, themsg)
smtp.close()
I suspect the issue is this code zips a file as well. I don't want to zip anything as I already have a zipped file I would like to send. In either case, this code is poorly documented as well as the python libraries themselves as they provide no insight on anything past img file and text files.
UPDATE: Error I am getting now. I have also updated what is in my file with the code above
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/Zeroe/Documents/python_hw/cgi-bin/zip_it.py", line 100, in <module>
send_file_zipped('hw5.zip', '[email protected]')
File "/Users/Zeroe/Documents/python_hw/cgi-bin/zip_it.py", line 32, in send_file_zipped
msg.set_payload(myzip.read())
TypeError: read() takes at least 2 arguments (1 given)
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Python3. # into a specific location. Import the zipfile module Create a zip file object using ZipFile class. Call the extract() method on the zip file object and pass the name of the file to be extracted and the path where the file needed to be extracted and Extracting the specific file present in the zip.
Python also provides a high-level module called zipfile specifically designed to create, read, write, extract, and list the content of ZIP files. In this tutorial, you'll learn about Python's zipfile and how to use it effectively.
Right click on the folder itself. In the menu that pops up, choose “Send to”, then choose “Compressed (zipped) folder” Rename the zipped folder if necessary, then hit enter. Right click the zipped folder, then choose “Send to” again, but this time choose “Mail Recipient”
I don't really see the problem. Just omit the part which creates the zip file and, instead, just load the zip file you have.
Essentially, this part here
msg = MIMEBase('application', 'zip')
msg.set_payload(zf.read())
encoders.encode_base64(msg)
msg.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment',
filename=the_file + '.zip')
themsg.attach(msg)
creates the attachment. The
msg.set_payload(zf.read())
sets, well, the payload of the attachment to what you read from the file zf (probably meaning zip file).
Just open your zip file beforehand and let this line read from it.
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