Using HTML in Python in sending an email

Question

I am trying to send an email using python. I am trying to format my email in HTML format. Below is the code:-

sender = '[email protected]'
receivers = ['[email protected]']
message = message = """From: team <[email protected]>
To: To Person <[email protected]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/html
Subject: Daily Report 
<html>
<table>
Report
<% for i in rows: %>
    <tr>
        <td> <%= rows[0][1] %>
    </tr>
<% end %>
</table>

<b>This is HTML message.</b>
<h1>This is headline.</h1>
</html>
"""
smtpObj = smtplib.SMTP('SMTP mailer')
smtpObj.sendmail(sender, receivers, message)

I am fetching rows from Database based on some condition and storing it in "rows" variable. I am trying to loop the HTML table creation based on the number of rows returned.

Whenever i send an email it does not identify the for loop that i have written. It does identify the "This is HTML message" in Bold form and "This is headline" in H1 format

What am i doing wrong?

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:21:26Z

2

You want to use a template engine for creating the HTML. For Python the message string you are using is just a string, nothing else. The `<% for i in rows: %>' is this very text, Python does no processing whatsoever with it.

Your mail message is not correctly formatted according to RFC2822:

You must use CRLF ('\r\n') as newline separators, LF (\n') only is illegal
Headers and body must be separated by a CRLF (i.e. one empty line).

For sending an HTML formatted message with Python, I would suggest that you use the features from email.mime, c.f. How to send an email with style in Python3?

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:21

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Neil Over a year ago

Ok. I would be using Jinja2

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