# ---------------------------------------------------------------
def createMail(sender, recipient, subject, html, text):
'''
A slightly modified version of Recipe #67083, included here
for completeness
'''
import MimeWriter, mimetools, cStringIO
out = cStringIO.StringIO()
htmlin = cStringIO.StringIO(html)
txtin = cStringIO.StringIO(text)
writer = MimeWriter.MimeWriter(out)
writer.addheader("From", sender)
writer.addheader("To", recipient)
writer.addheader("Subject", subject)
writer.addheader("MIME-Version", "1.0")
writer.startmultipartbody("alternative")
writer.flushheaders()
subpart = writer.nextpart()
subpart.addheader("Content-Transfer-Encoding", "quoted-printable")
pout = subpart.startbody("text/plain", [("charset", 'us-ascii')])
mimetools.encode(txtin, pout, 'quoted-printable')
txtin.close()
subpart = writer.nextpart()
subpart.addheader("Content-Transfer-Encoding", "quoted-printable")
pout = subpart.startbody("text/html", [("charset", 'us-ascii')])
mimetools.encode(htmlin, pout, 'quoted-printable')
htmlin.close()
writer.lastpart()
msg = out.getvalue()
out.close()
return msg
# ---------------------------------------------------------------
def sendMail(sender, recipient, subject, html, text):
import smtplib
message = createMail(sender, recipient, subject, html, text)
server = smtplib.SMTP("localhost")
server.sendmail(sender, recipient, message)
server.quit()
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def main():
'''
the main body of your program
'''
print x # will raise an exception
# ---------------------------------------------------------------
if __name__ == '__main__':
try:
main()
except:
import sys, cgitb
sendMail('bugs@yourdomain.com',
'webmaster@yourdomain.com',
'Error on yourdomain.com',
cgitb.html(sys.exc_info()),
cgitb.text(sys.exc_info()))
# handle the error gracefully, perhaps doing a
# http redirect if this is a cgi application or
# otherwise letting the user know something happened
# but that, hey, you are all over it
