[issue4403] regression from 2.6: smtplib.py requiring ascii for sending messages
New submission from August Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
smtplib requires that messages being sent be in ascii, and throws an exception
otherwise.
Python 2.6 doesn't require this. Here's the diff where it was introduced:
http://svn.python.org/view/python/branches/py3k/Lib/smtplib.py?rev=59102&r1=58495&r2=59102
Is there a good reason for this? I use python for a webstore, and send out
emails for folks
with multibyte names (for instance, if a name has an umlaut).
Here's a code snippit + exception:
Python 3.0rc3 (r30rc3:67312, Nov 22 2008, 18:45:57)
[GCC 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305] on freebsd6
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import smtplib
>>> server = smtplib.SMTP("localhost")
>>> server.sendmail("[EMAIL PROTECTED]", "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", "Ümlaut")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/home/mu.org/home/gus/unix/python3/lib/python3.0/smtplib.py", line 713,
in sendmail
(code,resp) = self.data(msg)
File "/home/mu.org/home/gus/unix/python3/lib/python3.0/smtplib.py", line 481,
in data
self.send(q)
File "/home/mu.org/home/gus/unix/python3/lib/python3.0/smtplib.py", line 305,
in send
s = s.encode("ascii")
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xdc' in position 0:
ordinal not in
range(128)
Is there a workaround or a new way of using it? I couldn't seem to find it.
Thanks!
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title: regression from 2.6: smtplib.py requiring ascii for sending messages
versions: Python 3.0
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[issue4403] regression from 2.6: smtplib.py requiring ascii for sending messages
August Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
Encoding the message first doesn't work either:
>>> import smtplib
>>> server = smtplib.SMTP("localhost")
>>> server.sendmail("[EMAIL PROTECTED]", "[EMAIL PROTECTED]",
>>> "Ümlaut".encode("UTF-8"))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/home/mu.org/home/gus/unix/python3/lib/python3.0/smtplib.py", line 713,
in sendmail
(code,resp) = self.data(msg)
File "/home/mu.org/home/gus/unix/python3/lib/python3.0/smtplib.py", line 477,
in data
q = quotedata(msg)
File "/home/mu.org/home/gus/unix/python3/lib/python3.0/smtplib.py", line 157,
in quotedata
re.sub(r'(?:\r\n|\n|\r(?!\n))', CRLF, data))
File "/home/mu.org/home/gus/unix/python3/lib/python3.0/re.py", line 165, in
sub
return _compile(pattern, 0).sub(repl, string, count)
TypeError: can't use a string pattern on a bytes-like object
Should a check be done in data() first, before it tries to try string
operations on it?
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[issue4403] regression from 2.6: smtplib.py requiring ascii for sending messages
August Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
For completeness, if anyone runs across this in the future, the following seems
to work for sending utf-8 mail
in python 3:
import smtplib
import email.mime.text
msg = email.mime.text.MIMEText("Ümlaut", _charset="UTF-8")
smtp = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')
smtp.sendmail('[EMAIL PROTECTED]', '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', "Subject: This is your
mail\n" + msg.as_string())
smtp.quit()
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