Including a Variable In the HTML Tags When Sending An Email
MRAB
python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Sat Aug 8 12:02:43 EDT 2020
On 2020-08-08 15:58, sammy.jackson987 at gmail.com wrote:
> On Saturday, August 8, 2020 at 3:46:04 PM UTC+1, Richard Damon wrote:
>> All the text that you want the user to see needs to be in the <body> of
>> the message. <head> is for metadata and stuff to setup some formatting.
>>
>> You might want to study up a bit on HTML formatting too. Depending on
>> what the data frame is like, you may need to enclose it in some sort of
>> container, like a <div>
>>
>> On 8/8/20 10:29 AM, sammy.jackson987 at gmail.com wrote:
>> > Hello all
>> >
>> > I was hoping someone could help me with the following coding problem.
>> >
>> > I am trying to send an email where the body of the email is taken from a data frame, which i have managed to do.
>> >
>> > However i want to start the email by saying Hi Name, where Name is a variable that contains the person's name to whom i am sending the email to - This is the bit i cannot get working.
>> >
>> > The code i have so far is as follows:-
>> >
>> > [python]
>> > import smtplib
>> > from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
>> > from email.mime.text import MIMEText
>> >
>> > mail=smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 123)
>> > mail.ehlo()
>> > mail.starttls()
>> > mail.login("Email","Pwd")
>> >
>> > From_Address = ["From_Email"]
>> > To_Address = [Report_Data_Frame.iloc[0,10]]
>> > CC_Address = ["CC_Email", "CC_Email", "CC_Email"]
>> > Subject_Email = "Email_Subject"
>> > Body = Email_Body_Data_Frame
>> > Name = "Tom"
>> >
>> >
>> > html = """\
>> > <html>
>> >
>> > <head>
>> > Hi Name Goes HERE!!!
>> > <br>
>> > <br>
>> > TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT<br> <br>
>> > </head>
>> >
>> > <body>
>> >
>> > {0}
>> >
>> > </body>
>> >
>> > <br>
>> >
>> > TEXT TEXT <br><br>
>> > TEXT TEXT <br><br>
>> > TEXT TEXT <br><br>
>> > TEXT TEXT <br>
>> >
>> >
>> > </html>
>> > """.format(Body.to_html())
>> >
>> > msg = MIMEMultipart()
>> > msg['From'] = ', '.join(From_Address)
>> > msg['To'] = ', '.join(To_Address)
>> > msg['Cc'] = ', '.join(CC_Address)
>> > msg['Subject'] = Subject_Email
>> >
>> > message = MIMEText(html,'html')
>> > msg.attach(message)
>> > mail.sendmail(From_Address, (To_Address + CC_Address), msg.as_string())
>> > [/python]
>> >
>> > In this case the variable Name is Tom and i want to include Tom in the email.
>> >
>> > Can anyone help?
>> >
>> > Still a newbie; approx 3 weeks playing with Python (cut and past most of this code)
>> >
>> > Any help will be greatly appericated.
>> >
>> > Thank you.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Richard Damon
>
> Thank you Richard for your response.
>
> I have moved all the text i want the user to see into the body of the email.
>
> I still cannot get my email to display the name.
>
> Name = "Tim"
>
> How would i include this variable in my HTML/Python code?
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thank you.
>
I can't see why you're having a problem putting the name into the HTML
when you're already managing to put the text of the dataframe into it...
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