On 1/14/12, Chris Kavanagh <cka...@msn.com> wrote: > I was looking at this code from the Python Docs > (http://docs.python.org/library/email-examples.html), trying to learn > how to send email from a Pyhton script. Anyways, part of this code > confused me. Here's the script: > > 1 # Import smtplib for the actual sending function > 2 import smtplib > 3 > 4 # Import the email modules we'll need > 5 from email.mime.text import MIMEText > 6 > 7 # Open a plain text file for reading. For this example, assume that > 8 # the text file contains only ASCII characters. > 9 fp = open(textfile, 'rb') > 10 # Create a text/plain message > 11 msg = MIMEText(fp.read()) > 12 fp.close() > 13 > 14 # me == the sender's email address > 15 # you == the recipient's email address > 16 msg['Subject'] = 'The contents of %s' % textfile > 17 msg['From'] = me > 18 msg['To'] = you > 19 > 20 # Send the message via our own SMTP server, but don't include the > 21 # envelope header. > 22 s = smtplib.SMTP('localhost') > 23 s.sendmail(me, [you], msg.as_string()) > 24 s.quit() > > What I don't understand is lines 16-18, more specifically the > msg['Subject'] format. I thought this was only done with dics?? > Obviously the variable msg isn't a dic, so how can this be done?? > > I actually put lines 11, 16,17,18, in the interpreter, then printed out > msg, so I get what it's doing, but my question still stands. How can one > do this, when I thought it could only be done with dictionaries??? Just from looking, I can pretty much guarantee that MIMEText, when you create an instance of it by giving it that file pointer (in other words, you give it a text file), returns a dictionary automatically. I have not looked up the module, but just reading that code, I don't think I have to. Clearly, msg is a dictionary-like object, and since msg is what the constructor of MIMEText() returns when passed the content of a file, the constructor must return a dictionary-like object. > > Thanks for any help! BTW, using Python27, WinXP. > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >
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