[Tutor] Insert time into email

[Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick]

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On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 6:28 PM, Crush <crushed26 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Where does the ."format(time=t,date=d)" go?
>
> I would assume something like
>
> msgTime = MIMEText()
> msgTime.add_header('not sure what to put here?' '<time>' .format(time=t))
> msgRoot.attach(msgTime)
>
> then in the actual html, something like...
> <table><tr><td>{time}</td></tr></table>?
>
> and yes, for simplicity sake, the date and time will be the same.

Do not bother with MIME for this.  It WON’T be simpler.  (it’s most
likely impossible, in fact.)

msgText = MIMEText('<table cellspacing="15" border="1">…rest of your
HTML here, complete with {time} and {date}
tags…</table>'.format(time=t, date=d), 'html')
msgAlternative.attach(msgText)

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