Om Prakash <torque.in...@gmail.com> Wrote in message: > Hi, > > I am writing this program from > https://docs.python.org/2/library/email-examples.html > > but getting the error as > > singhom@debian:~/pythons$ python send_email.py > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "send_email.py", line 18, in <module> > msg['Subject'] = 'The contents of $s' % message > NameError: name 'message' is not defined > > > i know the error would be something simple and i am overlooking it, any > help would be highly appreciated, I am sorry, but I am very new to > python programming. > > code starts here. > #/usr/bin/python2.7 -tt > > ## sending a simple text message using python. > import smtplib > > from email.mime.text import MIMEText > > # Open file for reading. > fp = open("message", 'rb') > # Create a plain text message. > msg = MIMEText(fp.read()) > > fp.close
This line doesn't do anything. If you want to close the file, you need some parens, Or you can use the 'with' form instead of open. > > me = "torque.in...@gmail.com" > you = "oomprak...@gmail.com" > > msg['Subject'] = 'The contents of $s' % message Just what did you plan to use here? You never defined a variable called message. If you intended to use msg, I presume you realize it could be quite large, -- DaveA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
