Error #101019
self._write(msg)
File "C:\Python25_x86\lib\email\generator.py", line 109, in _write
self._dispatch(msg)
File "C:\Python25_x86\lib\email\generator.py", line 135, in _dispatch
meth(msg)
File "C:\Python25_x86\lib\email\generator.py", line 178, in _handle_text
self._fp.write(payload)
UnicodeEncodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t encode character u’\u2018’ in position 2552: ordinal not in range(128)
User's solution
This works!This solved the problem: http://mg.pov.lt/blog/uni...-in-python
#Here's a copy of that code from the link above in case that link dies.
from smtplib import SMTP
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
from email.Header import Header
from email.Utils import parseaddr, formataddr
def send_email(sender, recipient, subject, body):
"""Send an email.
All arguments should be Unicode strings (plain ASCII works as well).
Only the real name part of sender and recipient addresses may contain
non-ASCII characters.
The email will be properly MIME encoded and delivered though SMTP to
localhost port 25. This is easy to change if you want something different.
The charset of the email will be the first one out of US-ASCII, ISO-8859-1
and UTF-8 that can represent all the characters occurring in the email.
"""
# Header class is smart enough to try US-ASCII, then the charset we
# provide, then fall back to UTF-8.
header_charset = 'ISO-8859-1'
# We must choose the body charset manually
for body_charset in 'US-ASCII', 'ISO-8859-1', 'UTF-8':
try:
body.encode(body_charset)
except UnicodeError:
pass
else:
break
# Split real name (which is optional) and email address parts
sender_name, sender_addr = parseaddr(sender)
recipient_name, recipient_addr = parseaddr(recipient)
# We must always pass Unicode strings to Header, otherwise it will
# use RFC 2047 encoding even on plain ASCII strings.
sender_name = str(Header(unicode(sender_name), header_charset))
recipient_name = str(Header(unicode(recipient_name), header_charset))
# Make sure email addresses do not contain non-ASCII characters
sender_addr = sender_addr.encode('ascii')
recipient_addr = recipient_addr.encode('ascii')
# Create the message ('plain' stands for Content-Type: text/plain)
msg = MIMEText(body.encode(body_charset), 'plain', body_charset)
msg['From'] = formataddr((sender_name, sender_addr))
msg['To'] = formataddr((recipient_name, recipient_addr))
msg['Subject'] = Header(unicode(subject), header_charset)
# Send the message via SMTP to localhost:25
smtp = SMTP("localhost")
smtp.sendmail(sender, recipient, msg.as_string())
smtp.quit()
