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guettli
guettli

Reputation: 27107

Creating matching MIME Attachment with Python

I found this snippet in the official examples

   if maintype == 'text':
        fp = open(path)
        # Note: we should handle calculating the charset
        msg = MIMEText(fp.read(), _subtype=subtype)
        fp.close()
    elif maintype == 'image':
        fp = open(path, 'rb')
        msg = MIMEImage(fp.read(), _subtype=subtype)
        fp.close()
    elif maintype == 'audio':
        fp = open(path, 'rb')
        msg = MIMEAudio(fp.read(), _subtype=subtype)
        fp.close()
    else:
        fp = open(path, 'rb')
        msg = MIMEBase(maintype, subtype)
        msg.set_payload(fp.read())
        fp.close()
        # Encode the payload using Base64
        encoders.encode_base64(msg)

I need exactly this kind of feature: Add any kind of file to an email.

I want to avoid this long if-elif-elif part, since it looks redundant to me.

Is there no generic way of attaching any kind of data to an email?

In my case "all kind of data" means:

Upvotes: 4

Views: 211

Answers (1)

Valentin Lorentz
Valentin Lorentz

Reputation: 9763

Is there no generic way of attaching any kind of data to an email?

You can get rid of the first cases and only keep MIMEBase, which is the base (ie. generic) class for MIME types.

The first cases are only examples of what you can do if you want specific handling for some types.

Upvotes: 2

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