error while writing program to send mail.

Mon Sep 1 20:56:57 EDT 2014

On 09/02/2014 05:29 AM, MRAB wrote:
> On 2014年09月02日 00:35, Om Prakash wrote:
>> Hi,
>>>> I am writing this program from
>> https://docs.python.org/2/library/email-examples.html
>>>> but getting the error as
>>>> singhom at debian:~/pythons$ python send_email.py
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "send_email.py", line 18, in <module>
>> msg['Subject'] = 'The contents of $s' % message
>> NameError: name 'message' is not defined
>>>>>> i know the error would be something simple and i am overlooking it, any
>> help would be highly appreciated, I am sorry, but I am very new to
>> python programming.
>>>> code starts here.
>> #/usr/bin/python2.7 -tt
>>>> ## sending a simple text message using python.
>> import smtplib
>>>> from email.mime.text import MIMEText
>>>> # Open file for reading.
>> fp = open("message", 'rb')
>> # Create a plain text message.
>> msg = MIMEText(fp.read())
>>>> fp.close
>> That should be:
>> fp.close()
>>>>> me = "torque.india at gmail.com"
>> you = "oomprakash at gmail.com"
>>>> msg['Subject'] = 'The contents of $s' % message
>> You're trying to use the format operator, but:
>> 1. You never bound the name 'message' to a value, hence:
>> NameError: name 'message' is not defined
>> 2. The format string contains '$s' instead of '%s'.
>>> msg['From'] = me
>> msg['To'] = you
>>>> # Send message thorugh localhost but don't include the envelope headers.
>>>> s = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')
>> s.sendmail(me, [you], msg.as_string())
>> s.quit()
>>>Thanks a lot. will fix this and my overlooking of things too. :)