On Nov 27, 2:39 am, Lie Ryan <lie.1...@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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
