On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 5:05 PM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > On 06/09/2011 22:52, neubyr wrote: >> >> I am trying to write a program which can email file's content using >> smtplib. I am getting following error while using Python 2.6.6 >> version. >> >> {{{ >> File "./killed_jobs.py", line 88, in sendmail >> msg = MIMEText(ipfile.read, 'plain') >> File "/home/ssp/sge/python/2.6.6/lib/python2.6/email/mime/text.py", >> line 30, in __init__ >> self.set_payload(_text, _charset) >> File "/home/ssp/sge/python/2.6.6/lib/python2.6/email/message.py", >> line 224, in set_payload >> self.set_charset(charset) >> File "/home/ssp/sge/python/2.6.6/lib/python2.6/email/message.py", >> line 266, in set_charset >> cte(self) >> File "/home/ssp/sge/python/2.6.6/lib/python2.6/email/encoders.py", >> line 73, in encode_7or8bit >> orig.encode('ascii') >> AttributeError: 'builtin_function_or_method' object has no attribute >> 'encode' >> >> }}} >> >> >> I am referring to email examples on the doc site >> >> http://docs.python.org/release/2.6.6/library/email-examples.html#email-examples >> . Following is the msg object part in my code: >> >> {{{ >> ... >> ... >> def sendmail(inputfile): >> ipfile = open(inputfile, 'r') >> msg = MIMEText(ipfile.read, 'plain') >> ipfile.close() >> >> ... >> ... >> }}} >> >> I have tried setting subtype and chartype separately as mentioned here >> - http://docs.python.org/release/2.6.6/library/email.mime.html, but >> the error remains same. Any help on what might be wrong here? >> > The docs say: > > MIMEText(_text[, _subtype[, _charset]]) > > ... _text is the string for the payload ... > > You're passing ipfile.read, which is the read method of the file. You > should be passing the string returned by calling ipfile.read, ie > ipfile.read(). > -- >
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