Send an email with python (simple, complexe, more complexe)

Saad Alem — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 17:21:16 +0000

Simple :

import smtplib

server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
server.starttls()
server.login("YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS", "YOUR PASSWORD")

msg = "YOUR MESSAGE!"
server.sendmail("YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS", "THE EMAIL ADDRESS TO SEND TO", msg)
server.quit()

Complexe(professionel) :

import smtplib
from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText


fromaddr = "YOUR ADDRESS" 
toaddr = "ADDRESS YOU WANT TO SEND TO"
msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['From'] = fromaddr
msg['To'] = toaddr
msg['Subject'] = "SUBJECT OF THE MAIL"

body = "YOUR MESSAGE HERE"
msg.attach(MIMEText(body, 'plain'))

server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
server.starttls()
server.login(fromaddr, "YOUR PASSWORD")
text = msg.as_string()
server.sendmail(fromaddr, toaddr, text)
server.quit()

More complexe (convert files to Base64 before sending it. to send text, pdfs, pictures, audios or videos) :

import smtplib
from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
from email.MIMEBase import MIMEBase
from email import encoders

fromaddr = "YOUR EMAIL"
toaddr = "EMAIL ADDRESS YOU SEND TO"

msg = MIMEMultipart()

msg['From'] = fromaddr
msg['To'] = toaddr
msg['Subject'] = "SUBJECT OF THE EMAIL"

body = "TEXT YOU WANT TO SEND"

msg.attach(MIMEText(body, 'plain'))

filename = "NAME OF THE FILE WITH ITS EXTENSION"
attachment = open("PATH OF THE FILE", "rb")

part = MIMEBase('application', 'octet-stream')
part.set_payload((attachment).read())
encoders.encode_base64(part)
part.add_header('Content-Disposition', "attachment; filename= %s" % filename)

msg.attach(part)

server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
server.starttls()
server.login(fromaddr, "YOUR PASSWORD")
text = msg.as_string()
server.sendmail(fromaddr, toaddr, text)
server.quit()

Numbers that every computer engineer should know, according to Jeff Dean

Saad Alem — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 12:59:40 +0000

L1 cache reference: 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict: 5 ns
L2 cache reference: 7 ns
Mutex lock/unlock: 100 ns
Main memory reference: 100 ns
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy: 10,000 ns
Send 2K bytes over 1 Gbps network: 20,000 ns
Read 1 MB sequentially from memory: 250,000 ns
Round trip within same datacenter: 500,000 ns
Disk seek: 10,000,000 ns
Read 1 MB sequentially from network: 10,000,000 ns
Read 1 MB sequentially from disk: 30,000,000 ns
Send packet CA->Netherlands->CA: 150,000,000 ns

(1 ns = 1 * 10^-9 s)

These numbers have been updated by others :
https://colin-scott.github.io/blog/2012/12/24/latency-trends/

What are programmers bookmarking ?

Saad Alem — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 09:28:09 +0000

Do you even use bookmarks this days ? Besides "reads"

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Send an email with python (simple, complexe, more complexe)

Numbers that every computer engineer should know, according to Jeff Dean

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