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James L.
James L.

Reputation: 1153

Format email message in Django

I'm trying to send email message in one of my views and would like to format the body of the message, such that it shows in different lines.

This is a snippet code in views.py:

  body = "Patient Name: " +  patient_name + \
                   "Contact: " + phone + \
                   "Doctor Requested: Dr. " +  doctor.name + \
                   "Preference: " + preference

  email = EmailMessage('New Appointment Request', body, to=['[email protected]'])
  email.send()

The email is shown like this:

Patient Name: AfrojackContact: 6567892Doctor Requested: Dr. IrenaPreference: Afternoon

How do I make it show like this:

Patient Name: Afrojack

Contact: 6567892

Doctor Requested: Dr. Irena

Preference: Afternoon

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2247

Answers (4)

hiro protagonist
hiro protagonist

Reputation: 46921

you should add '\n' for newlines.

or you could try this:

body = '''Patient Name: {}
Contact: {}
Doctor Requested: Dr. {}
Preference: {}'''.format(patient_name, phone, doctor.name, preference)

or, if you are using python >= 3.6:

body = f'''Patient Name: {patient_name}
Contact: {phone}
Doctor Requested: Dr. {doctor.name}
Preference: {preference}'''

Upvotes: 3

mattions
mattions

Reputation: 312

I suggest to use the django template system to do that.

You could do:

```
from django.template import loader, Context

def send_templated_email(subject, email_template_name, context_dict, recipients):


    template = loader.get_template(email_template_name)

    context = Context(context_dict)

    email = EmailMessage(subject, body, to=recipients)
    email.send()

```

The template will look like: this could for example be in the file myapp/templates/myapp/email/doctor_appointment.email:

```

Patient Name: {{patient_name}}

Contact: {{contact_number}}

Doctor Requested: {{doctor_name}}

Preference: {{preference}}
```

and you will use it like

```
context_email = {"patient_name" : patient_name,
    "contact_number" : phone,
    "doctor_name":  doctor.name,
    "preference" :  preference}

send_templated_email("New Appointment Request", 
                     "myapp/templates/myapp/email/doctor_appointment.email",
                     context_email, 
                     ['[email protected]'])
```

This is very powerfull, because you can style all the email in the way you want, and you re-use the same function over and over, just need to create new template and pass appropriate context/subject and recipietns

Upvotes: 4

romainm
romainm

Reputation: 281

this should do the trick for breakline:

\n

Upvotes: 1

Arpit Goyal
Arpit Goyal

Reputation: 2254

You are going right but you just missed a letter n

body = "Patient Name: " +  patient_name + "\n"
                   + "Contact: " + phone + "\n"
                   + "Doctor Requested: Dr. " +  doctor.name + "\n"
                   + "Preference: " + preference

This will add new line after each and every line and most probably solve your problem.

Upvotes: 2

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