You can checkout the file to /tmp and include it from there. You cannot reference a file in your repository with a file path.
Hth, Nick Stolwijk ~Java Developer~ IPROFS BV. Claus Sluterweg 125 2012 WS Haarlem http://www.iprofs.nl On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Tech Geek <techgeek12...@gmail.com> wrote: > I guess my biggest hurdle at this time is how to extract the file from the > repository that I would like to send it as an attachment. > > Most of the examples on the net simply specifies an explicit filename (to > show as an example) like this: > ********************************************************************************* > #!/usr/bin/python > import smtplib > ...... > filename = "/tmp/test.txt" > ..... > # Define the attachment section > part3 = """Content-Type: multipart/mixed; name=\"%s\" > Content-Transfer-Encoding:base64 > Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=%s > ....... > %s > --%s-- > """ %(filename, filename, encodedcontent, marker) > message = part1 + part2 + part3 > try: > smtpObj = smtplib.SMTP('localhost') > smtpObj.sendmail(sender, reciever, message) > print "Successfully sent email" > except Exception: > print "Error: unable to send email" > ********************************************************************************* > So basically I would want the path > /var/lib/svn/projectA/tags/REL-1.0/source.zip in the filename variable. > >