Sending an email in Python from an executable file

Question

I've been sending emails from the command line of my Raspberry Pi with this

echo “Body text” | mail -s Subject targetperson@example.com

code. How would I put this in an executable python file?

Thanks.

Answer 1

This should work comment below if it doesn't I'll delete:

import os
os.system('echo “Body text” | mail -s Subject targetperson@example.com')

Answer 2

Put the following in a file called 'send_email'

#!/usr/bin/python

import sys
import os

address = sys.argv[1]
subject = sys.argv[2]
message = sys.argv[3]  # Probably want to do some escaping on this and subject

os.system('echo "%s" | mail -s "%s" %s' % (message, subject, address)) 

Put this file on your PATH and run the following to make it executable:

chmod +x send_email

Now you should be able to send an email as follows:

send_email foo@bar.com "Important Subject" "Here is a message"