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From: Ramdas on 26 Nov 2009 14:57 Dear all, I believe this is an error which was fixed in Python 2.3 itself. But I am running Python 2,5.2 and error keeps on cropping up. Here is my code to construct emails . It works perfectly when I dont have any attachments. Please find my code at http://dpaste.com/hold/125574/ However when I try constructing with attachments it crashes with this error string payload expected: <type 'list'> error. Going through the trace error I discover that as I call the function msg.as_string, the function . _handle_text(self, msg) expects a string object but I am generating list object. Can someone advise what I need to code to parse series of attachments into an email. Help appreciated
From: MRAB on 26 Nov 2009 15:33 Ramdas wrote: > Dear all, > > I believe this is an error which was fixed in Python 2.3 itself. But I > am running Python 2,5.2 and error keeps on cropping up. > > Here is my code to construct emails . It works perfectly when I dont > have any attachments. Please find my code at > > http://dpaste.com/hold/125574/ > > > However when I try constructing with attachments it crashes with this > error string payload expected: <type 'list'> error. > > Going through the trace error I discover that as I call the function > msg.as_string, the function . _handle_text(self, msg) expects a string > object but I am generating list object. Can someone advise what I need > to code to parse series of attachments into an email. > > Help appreciated I've been looking at the example in the Python 2.6.2 documentation. It looks like you should have: msg1.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment', filename=filename)
From: Ramdas on 26 Nov 2009 15:49 On Nov 27, 1:33 am, MRAB <pyt...(a)mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > Ramdas wrote: > > Dear all, > > > I believe this is an error which was fixed in Python 2.3 itself. But I > > am running Python 2,5.2 and error keeps on cropping up. > > > Here is my code to construct emails . It works perfectly when I dont > > have any attachments. Please find my code at > > >http://dpaste.com/hold/125574/ > > > However when I try constructing with attachments it crashes with this > > error string payload expected: <type 'list'> error. > > > Going through the trace error I discover that as I call the function > > msg.as_string, the function . _handle_text(self, msg) expects a string > > object but I am generating list object. Can someone advise what I need > > to code to parse series of attachments into an email. > > > Help appreciated > > I've been looking at the example in the Python 2.6.2 documentation. It > looks like you should have: > > msg1.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment', filename=filename) Thanks! I did that correction, however the error still persists .....
From: Lie Ryan on 26 Nov 2009 16:39 Ramdas wrote: > Dear all, > > I believe this is an error which was fixed in Python 2.3 itself. But I > am running Python 2,5.2 and error keeps on cropping up. > > Here is my code to construct emails . It works perfectly when I dont > have any attachments. Please find my code at > > http://dpaste.com/hold/125574/ > > > However when I try constructing with attachments it crashes with this > error string payload expected: <type 'list'> error. Except if the traceback is due to a recursive function that doesn't terminate, please always post the FULL traceback. Don't summarize the error message. > Going through the trace error I discover that as I call the function > msg.as_string, the function . _handle_text(self, msg) expects a string > object but I am generating list object. Can someone advise what I need > to code to parse series of attachments into an email. > > Help appreciated I smell this part of the code as particularly fishy: msg1 = MIMEBase(maintype, subtype) msg1.set_payload(MIMEText(fp.read())) why are you wrapping a MIMEText inside a MIMEBase?
From: Ramdas on 27 Nov 2009 04:43
On Nov 27, 2:39 am, Lie Ryan <lie.1...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Ramdas wrote: > > Dear all, > > > I believe this is an error which was fixed in Python 2.3 itself. But I > > am running Python 2,5.2 and error keeps on cropping up. > > > Here is my code to construct emails . It works perfectly when I dont > > have any attachments. Please find my code at > > >http://dpaste.com/hold/125574/ > > > However when I try constructing with attachments it crashes with this > > error string payload expected: <type 'list'> error. > > Except if the traceback is due to a recursive function that doesn't > terminate, please always post the FULL traceback. Don't summarize the > error message. > > > Going through the trace error I discover that as I call the function > > msg.as_string, the function . _handle_text(self, msg) expects a string > > object but I am generating list object. Can someone advise what I need > > to code to parse series of attachments into an email. > > > Help appreciated > > I smell this part of the code as particularly fishy: > > msg1 = MIMEBase(maintype, subtype) > msg1.set_payload(MIMEText(fp.read())) > > why are you wrapping a MIMEText inside a MIMEBase? I tried with MIMEBASE but it still fails...... I changed it to MIMEText, hoping that might trick __handletext to think its a string Anyway that also doesn't work. Any ideas |