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Cassie H.
Cassie H.

Reputation: 393

Sending an email in a python script using smtplib and MIMEText, but recieving an encoding error

I am trying to write a python script that sends an email. My code currently looks like:

import unittest
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
import os
import time
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.firefox_binary import FirefoxBinary
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains
from urllib.request import urlopen
from html.parser import HTMLParser
import smtplib
from email.mime.text import MIMEText



binary = FirefoxBinary('C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\Firefox.exe')
driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_binary=binary, executable_path='C:\geckodriver-v0.18.0-win64\geckodriver.exe')


class PythonOrgSearch(unittest.TestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        self.driver = driver

    def testServer(self):
        me = '[email protected]'
        you = '[email protected]'

        with open("testfile.txt", 'rb') as fp:
                msg = MIMEText(fp.read())
        msg['Subject']= 'Testing email'
        msg['From'] = me
        msg['To'] = you
        s = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')
        s.sendmail(me, [you], msg.as_string())
        s.quit()
        driver.close()
if __name__ == "__main__":
    unittest.main()

Currently, running this gives me the error that:

File "server.py", line 43, in testServer msg = MIMEText(fp.read()) File "C:\Users\663255\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\email\mime\text.py", line 34, in init _text.encode('us-ascii') AttributeError: 'bytes' object has no attribute 'encode'

However, I have tried changing the encoding from ascii to unicode or UTF-8 and it still gave me the above error referencing ascii...

Is there a simple resolution to this, or another approach to sending an email that is simpler? Thank you!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1395

Answers (1)

J-M. Gorius
J-M. Gorius

Reputation: 786

In order for MIMEText() to process the read text from fp correctly, you should try opening the file in read mode (i.e. using 'r') instead of binary read mode.

Upvotes: 2

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