On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Michael Hipp <mich...@hipp.com> wrote:
> I will be sending pdfs generated from django and would like to email them > but without writing them to the filesystem. > > I can generate the pdf to a buffer but django.core.mail seems to only > handle attachments that are specified as a filename. Is it possible to give > it a file-like object instead? > > Did you see the documentation regarding creating an EmailMessage and the attach() method? It says: """You can pass it a single argument that is an email.MIMEBase.MIMEBaseinstance. This will be inserted directly into the resulting message.""" Maybe you should create your own message using some of the examples: http://docs.python.org/library/email-examples.html Another idea: In what type of operating environment are you? If you are in linux you can use /dev/shm [0] In [1]: import tempfile In [2]: my_file = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(dir='/dev/shm/') In [3]: my_file.name Out[3]: '/dev/shm/tmpD0tjnI' In [4]: ls /dev/shm/tmp* /dev/shm/tmpD0tjnI [0] http://superuser.com/questions/45342/when-should-i-use-dev-shm-and-when-should-i-use-tmp hope it helps, -- Ale. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
