Chris Kavanagh wrote:
16 msg['Subject'] = 'The contents of %s' % textfile
17 msg['From'] = me
18 msg['To'] = you
What I don't understand is lines 16-18, more specifically the
msg['Subject'] format. I thought this was only done with dics??
Obviously the variable msg isn't a dic, so how can this be done??
It works with anything that behaves like a mapping. That includes dicts,
naturally, but also collections.OrderedDict and any other type of object that
supports the special __getitem__ method. This includes MIMEText objects, which
are designed to act like mappings when you set email headers:
py> from email.mime.text import MIMEText
py> msg = MIMEText('This is the body of your email')
py> print(msg)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
This is the body of your email
py>
py>
py> msg['X-Header'] = 'Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!'
py> print(msg)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Header: Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
This is the body of your email
py>
py>
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Steven
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