I am trying to attach a txt file to my email I am creating in python. Anyone know how I can attach a txt file to the email? #....snip outFile = open ( r "C:\Users\\TestFile.text" , "w" ) # return all rows with arcpy . da . SearchCursor ( fc , [ '*' ] , where_clause = expression ) as cursor : # return specific rows #with arcpy.da.SearchCursor(fc, [class_field, name_field], where_clause=expression) as cursor: for row in cursor : ## Print the name of the residential road #print('{0}, {1}'.format(row[0], row[1])) print ( row ) zval = str ( '{0}, {1}' . format ( row [ 0 ] , row [ 1 ] ) ) outFile . write ( zval + "\n" ) outFile . close ( ) #===SET EMAIL To AND From============================== FROMADDR = " me@somewherea.gov " TOADDRS = [ " me@somewherea.gov " ] #===BUILD EMAIL======================================== def msgEmail ( ) : msg = "Test" server = smtplib . SMTP ( 'smtp0.sitevision.com' , 25 ) server . set_debuglevel ( 1 ) server . ehlo ( ) server . sendmail ( FROMADDR , TOADDRS , msg ) server . quit ( ) return "Email Sent but Import Aborted" #===PROCESS EMAIL====================================== getMsgP = msgEmail ( ) print getMsgP

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jaykapalczynski

I am trying to attach a txt file to my email I am creating in python. Anyone know how I can attach a txt file to the email?

<SPAN class="comment token">#....snip</SPAN>

outFile <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> open<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>r<SPAN class="string token">"C:\Users\\TestFile.text"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"w"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>

<SPAN class="comment token"># return all rows</SPAN>
<SPAN class="keyword token">with</SPAN> arcpy<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>da<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>SearchCursor<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>fc<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="punctuation token">[</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">'*'</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">]</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> where_clause<SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN>expression<SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN> <SPAN class="keyword token">as</SPAN> cursor<SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN>
<SPAN class="comment token"># return specific rows</SPAN>
<SPAN class="comment token">#with arcpy.da.SearchCursor(fc, [class_field, name_field], where_clause=expression) as cursor:</SPAN>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <SPAN class="keyword token">for</SPAN> row <SPAN class="keyword token">in</SPAN> cursor<SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <SPAN class="comment token">## Print the name of the residential road</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <SPAN class="comment token">#print('{0}, {1}'.format(row[0], row[1]))</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <SPAN class="keyword token">print</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>row<SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; zval <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> str<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">'{0}, {1}'</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>format<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>row<SPAN class="punctuation token">[</SPAN><SPAN class="number token">0</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">]</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> row<SPAN class="punctuation token">[</SPAN><SPAN class="number token">1</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">]</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; outFile<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>write<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>zval <SPAN class="operator token">+</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"\n"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>


outFile<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>close<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 

<SPAN class="comment token">#===SET EMAIL To AND From==============================</SPAN>
FROMADDR <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token"><SPAN>"</SPAN><A class="jive-link-email-small" href="mailto:me@somewherea.gov" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">me@somewherea.gov</A><SPAN>"</SPAN></SPAN>
TOADDRS&nbsp; <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="punctuation token">[</SPAN><SPAN class="string token"><SPAN>"</SPAN><A class="jive-link-email-small" href="mailto:me@somewherea.gov" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">me@somewherea.gov</A><SPAN>"</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">]</SPAN>

<SPAN class="comment token">#===BUILD EMAIL========================================</SPAN>
<SPAN class="keyword token">def</SPAN> <SPAN class="token function">msgEmail</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; msg <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"Test"</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; server <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> smtplib<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>SMTP<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">'smtp0.sitevision.com'</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN><SPAN class="number token">25</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; server<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>set_debuglevel<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="number token">1</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; server<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>ehlo<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; server<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>sendmail<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>FROMADDR<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> TOADDRS<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> msg<SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; server<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>quit<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <SPAN class="keyword token">return</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"Email Sent but Import Aborted"</SPAN>

<SPAN class="comment token">#===PROCESS EMAIL======================================</SPAN>
getMsgP <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> msgEmail<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
<SPAN class="keyword token">print</SPAN> getMsgP<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN>

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DarrenWiens2

Here's an example, but really all I'm doing here is doing your web search for you:

email - Attach a txt file in Python smtplib - Stack Overflow

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jaykapalczynski

I was all over that example earlier...just could not get the syntax right....

Think I got it running...Is there a way to release the txt document after I run the code? The only way I can delete it is if I close my Python Window. On Delete attempt I get "The Action cant be completed because the file is open in pythonw.exe"

Working Code:

filename <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"TestFile.txt"</SPAN>
f <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> file<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>filename<SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>


<SPAN class="comment token">#===SET EMAIL To AND From==============================</SPAN>
FROMADDR <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token"><SPAN>"</SPAN><A class="jive-link-email-small" href="mailto:xyz@xyz.gov" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">xyz@xyz.gov</A><SPAN>"</SPAN></SPAN>
TOADDRS&nbsp; <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="punctuation token">[</SPAN><SPAN class="string token"><SPAN>"</SPAN><A class="jive-link-email-small" href="mailto:xyz@xyz.gov" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">xyz@xyz.gov</A><SPAN>"</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">]</SPAN>

<SPAN class="comment token">#===BUILD EMAIL========================================</SPAN>
<SPAN class="keyword token">def</SPAN> <SPAN class="token function">msgEmail</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <SPAN class="comment token">#msg = "Test"</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; msg <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> MIMEMultipart<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <SPAN class="comment token">#msg = "Test"</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; body <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"This is the message"</SPAN>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; content <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> MIMEText<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>body<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">'plain'</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; attachment <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> MIMEText<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>f<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>read<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; attachment<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>add_header<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">'Content-Disposition'</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">'attachment'</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> filename<SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN>filename<SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; msg<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>attach<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>attachment<SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; server <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> smtplib<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>SMTP<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">'smtp0.xyz.com'</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN><SPAN class="number token">25</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; server<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>set_debuglevel<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="number token">1</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; server<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>ehlo<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <SPAN class="comment token">#server.sendmail(FROMADDR, TOADDRS, msg)</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; server<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>sendmail<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>FROMADDR<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> TOADDRS<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> msg<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>as_string<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; server<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>quit<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <SPAN class="keyword token">return</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"Email Sent but Import Aborted"</SPAN>

<SPAN class="comment token">#===PROCESS EMAIL======================================</SPAN>
getMsgP <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> msgEmail<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
<SPAN class="keyword token">print</SPAN> getMsgP<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN>

DarrenWiens2

Here's an example, but really all I'm doing here is doing your web search for you:

email - Attach a txt file in Python smtplib - Stack Overflow

jaykapalczynski

<SPAN class="comment token">#===BUILD EMAIL========================================</SPAN>
<SPAN class="keyword token">def</SPAN> <SPAN class="token function">msgEmail</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <SPAN class="comment token">#msg = "Test"</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; msg <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> MIMEMultipart<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; msg <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"Test"</SPAN>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; part <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> MIMEBase<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">'application'</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"octet-stream"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; part<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>set_payload<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>open<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">"TestFile.txt"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"rb"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>read<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Encoders<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>encode_base64<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>part<SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; part<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>add_header<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">'Content-Disposition'</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">'attachment; filename="TestFile.txt"'</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; msg<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>attach<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>part<SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; server <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> smtplib<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>SMTP<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">'smtp0.xyz.com'</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN><SPAN class="number token">25</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; server<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>set_debuglevel<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="number token">1</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; server<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>ehlo<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <SPAN class="comment token">#server.sendmail(FROMADDR, TOADDRS, msg)</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; server<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>sendmail<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>FROMADDR<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> TOADDRS<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> msg<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>as_string<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; server<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>quit<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <SPAN class="keyword token">return</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"Email Sent but Import Aborted"</SPAN>

<SPAN class="comment token">#===PROCESS EMAIL======================================</SPAN>
getMsgP <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> msgEmail<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
<SPAN class="keyword token">print</SPAN> getMsgP‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN>

DarrenWiens2

What have you tried so far? I see lots of search results searching for "python email attachment".

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