Including a Variable In the HTML Tags When Sending An Email

Sat Aug 8 20:03:33 EDT 2020

On Saturday, August 8, 2020 at 5:03:07 PM UTC+1, MRAB wrote:
> On 2020-08-08 15:58, sammy.jackson987 at gmail.com wrote:
> > On Saturday, August 8, 2020 at 3:46:04 PM UTC+1, Richard Damon wrote:
> >> All the text that you want the user to see needs to be in the <body> of
> >> the message. <head> is for metadata and stuff to setup some formatting.
> >> 
> >> You might want to study up a bit on HTML formatting too. Depending on
> >> what the data frame is like, you may need to enclose it in some sort of
> >> container, like a <div>
> >> 
> >> On 8/8/20 10:29 AM, sammy.jackson987 at gmail.com wrote:
> >> > Hello all
> >> >
> >> > I was hoping someone could help me with the following coding problem.
> >> >
> >> > I am trying to send an email where the body of the email is taken from a data frame, which i have managed to do.
> >> >
> >> > However i want to start the email by saying Hi Name, where Name is a variable that contains the person's name to whom i am sending the email to - This is the bit i cannot get working.
> >> >
> >> > The code i have so far is as follows:-
> >> >
> >> > [python]
> >> > import smtplib
> >> > from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
> >> > from email.mime.text import MIMEText
> >> >              
> >> > mail=smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 123) 
> >> > mail.ehlo() 
> >> > mail.starttls()  
> >> > mail.login("Email","Pwd") 
> >> >              
> >> > From_Address = ["From_Email"]
> >> > To_Address = [Report_Data_Frame.iloc[0,10]]
> >> > CC_Address = ["CC_Email", "CC_Email", "CC_Email"]
> >> > Subject_Email = "Email_Subject" 
> >> > Body = Email_Body_Data_Frame
> >> > Name = "Tom"
> >> >          
> >> >                
> >> > html = """\
> >> > <html>
> >> >            
> >> >   <head>
> >> >       Hi Name Goes HERE!!!
> >> >       <br>
> >> >       <br>
> >> >       TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT<br> <br>
> >> >   </head>
> >> >            
> >> >   <body>
> >> >            
> >> >     {0}
> >> >      
> >> >   </body>
> >> >            
> >> >   <br>
> >> >            
> >> >  TEXT TEXT <br><br>
> >> >  TEXT TEXT <br><br>
> >> >  TEXT TEXT <br><br>
> >> >  TEXT TEXT <br>
> >> >           
> >> >         
> >> > </html>
> >> >  """.format(Body.to_html())
> >> >      
> >> > msg = MIMEMultipart()
> >> > msg['From'] = ', '.join(From_Address)
> >> > msg['To'] = ', '.join(To_Address)
> >> > msg['Cc'] = ', '.join(CC_Address)
> >> > msg['Subject'] = Subject_Email
> >> >              
> >> > message = MIMEText(html,'html')
> >> > msg.attach(message)
> >> > mail.sendmail(From_Address, (To_Address + CC_Address), msg.as_string())
> >> > [/python]
> >> >
> >> > In this case the variable Name is Tom and i want to include Tom in the email.
> >> >
> >> > Can anyone help?
> >> >
> >> > Still a newbie; approx 3 weeks playing with Python (cut and past most of this code)
> >> >
> >> > Any help will be greatly appericated.
> >> >
> >> > Thank you.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> -- 
> >> Richard Damon
> > 
> > Thank you Richard for your response.
> > 
> > I have moved all the text i want the user to see into the body of the email.
> > 
> > I still cannot get my email to display the name.
> > 
> > Name = "Tim"
> > 
> > How would i include this variable in my HTML/Python code?
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > Thank you.
> > 
> I can't see why you're having a problem putting the name into the HTML 
> when you're already managing to put the text of the dataframe into it...

Hi Richard

The issue i am am having is that the Name is a variable stored as a str and my data in my dataframe is stored as a variable of type dataframe.

If i use place holders i.e. {0} and {1} where {0} is the name and {1} is the dataframe i get an error for the following line of code:-
.format((Name,Body).to_html()) which states 'tuple' object has no attribute 'to_html'.

My amended code look like:-

import smtplib
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText

mail=smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 123)
mail.ehlo()
mail.starttls()  
mail.login("Email","Pwd")

From_Address = ["From_Email"]
To_Address = [Report_Data_Frame.iloc[0,10]]
CC_Address = ["CC_Email", "CC_Email", "CC_Email"]
Subject_Email = "Email_Subject"

Name = "Tom"
Body = Email_Body_Data_Frame

	html = """\
        <html>
          <head> 
          </head>
          <body>
                  Hi {0}
                  <br>
              <br>
                  TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT
              <br> 
              <br>
                  {1}
              <br>
                  TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT <br><br>

          </body>

          <br>

        </html>
         """.format((Name,Body).to_html())

If i convert the dataframe to a string then it messes up all the columns.

Any ideas?

Thanks