How to send an email with an attached file ?

[Graeme Matthew]

use the email module

this handles all email including attachments etc

"Michel Combe" <combe.michel at 9online.fr> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> I need to write a program to send an email with an attached ascii file.
>
> I tried the example using MIMEText given at
> http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/email-simple.txt
> but this includes the ascii file *inside* the message. This is not what I
> want, I want it attached.
>
> I then tried the example using MIMEMultipart given at
> http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel//lib/email-mime.txt
> but this example does not run on my system (Python 2.2.1 on Linux). I
> receive a message :
> ImportError: No module named MIMEMultipart
>
> Can someone help ?
> Thanks in advance
>
> Michel Combe
>