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In this video, you will learn how to send out an email that has an attachment with Python.

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Let's see how we can do that.

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For that, I'm going to fork

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perhaps the Send Single Email report.

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Since Email with Attachment.

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So let's do some things first.

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Set a password, a key for the Gmail account, a value.

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That's my app passwords.

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And press on add new secrets, then the next thing we want to do is let's create a sample file to attach

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to our email, text.txt.

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Just some content.

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That's it.

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Text.txt is the file we want to attach.

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And then the receiver.

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So we're going to send a single email at this time.

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The receiver is going to be this one in here.

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So on dropmail.me.

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You can have disposable email accounts, paste it there.

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Sending an email with an attachment is easier than you think.

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All you have to do is modify the contents variable.

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So, what we have to do is we need to convert this string into a list or to see it more

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accurately,

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you need to put to this string inside a list like that.

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Now we have a list containing one string, which is this one.

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But if we add one more item to this list, which could be like text.txt, so the path to this

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file and then we send out the email.

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Then Python or more specifically, yagmail, this library will get this file and it will send it out as

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an attachment.

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Now, if this file was inside the folder, let's say you have a folder here and you have that file inside

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that folder, then you have to provide the path, such as name of of the folder, whatever it is.

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Let's say it's sample.

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And then a slash and then the name of the file.

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This is not the case here, so that's OK.

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Email was sent.

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So go to the browser and here is the email.

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I can download it as a file to see the contents because this doesn't, this interface doesn't show the

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attached files.

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So if you want, you can try another email address that

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supports email attachments, so you could do the same Gmail accounts, put it there and send.

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And here is the email with text.txt attached as an attachment and that's the contents of that

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text file.

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And that was how to send an email with an attachment via Python.

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Thank you.