On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:36:32 +1100, Astan Chee wrote: > Kev Dwyer wrote: >> Hello Astan, >> >> Your code executes without error for me on Win98 (!) with Python 2.5 or >> XP with Python 2.6. >> >> It would help people to help you if you could provide the *exact* >> console output from when you try to execute the code, *including* the >> traceback. That way we can work out which line of code is hitting the >> exception. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Kev >> >> > Hi, > My mistake. The length of body is over 1400 characters. Here is my > updated code and result: > > import urllib, webbrowser, win32api > def mailto_url(to=None,subject=None,body=None,cc=None): > """ > encodes the content as a mailto link as described on > http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2368.html """ url = "mailto: " + > urllib.quote(to.strip(),"@,") sep = "?" > if cc: > url+= sep + "cc=" + urllib.quote(cc,"@,") sep = "&" > if subject: > url+= sep + "subject=" + urllib.quote(subject,"") sep = "&" > if body: > # Also note that line breaks in the body of a message MUST be # > encoded with "%0D%0A". (RFC 2368) > body="\r\n".join(body.splitlines()) > url+= sep + "body=" + urllib.quote(body,"") sep = "&" > return url > > txtTo = "[email protected]" > txtSubject = "Test Subject" > body = "Test body" > for t in range(278): > body+="test " > txtCC = "[email protected]" > > url = mailto_url(txtTo,txtSubject,body,txtCC) > #win32api.ShellExecute(0,'open',url,None,None,0) > webbrowser.open(url,new=1) > # os.startfile(url) > > result: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "C:/stanc_home/python/mail_test.py", line 32, in <module> > webbrowser.open(url,new=1) > File "C:\Python25\lib\webbrowser.py", line 61, in open > if browser.open(url, new, autoraise): > File "C:\Python25\lib\webbrowser.py", line 518, in open > os.startfile(url) > WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied: 'mailto: > [email protected][email protected]&subject=Test%20Subject&body=Test% 20bodytest%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test% 20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test% 20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test% 20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test% 20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test% 20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test% 20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test% 20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test% 20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test% 20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test% 20test%20test%20test%20test%20t > est%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test% 20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test% 20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20te > st%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test% 20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test% 20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test% 20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test% 20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test% 20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test% 20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test% 20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test% 20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test% 20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test% 20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test% 20test%20test%20test%20test%20tes > t%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test %20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test% 20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20test > %20test%20test%20test%20test%20test%20' > > Is there some sort of limitation here? If I shorten the string, it works > fine. You're right, but I'm wondering if there is a way to go around > this limitation. > Thanks again > Cheers > Astan
Hmmm. For me, body < 1400 opens an outlook message form, body > 1400 opens IE7. No time to look into this right now, but perhaps this is a windows thing. Don't know why you get windowserror, perhaps permissions??? I'll try and look again later/tomorrow. Cheers, Kev -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
