plain text parsing to html (newbie problem)

[Lie Ryan]

On 12/10/2009 11:17 PM, João wrote:
> Thanks for the output.
> akean, I've installed ipython and I'm exploring it. Thanks.
>
> Terry,
> from what I've read stringIO allows us to store strings in a 'virtual'
> file.
> Can you please write just 2 lines exemplifying a write to and a read
> from an OS level file?
>
> MRAB, that 'mail' object should've been the os level 'mail' file. But
> as I'm a beginner I was using it wrong..

it's actually easier to use real files than creating a virtual file:
f = open('mail.txt', 'w')
f.write("foo\n") # or print >> f, "foo"

and, is there any reason why you're not using the email and smtplib? 
http://docs.python.org/library/email-examples.html