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Python Automation Cookbook

You're reading from   Python Automation Cookbook Explore the world of automation using Python recipes that will enhance your skills

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789133806
Length 398 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jaime Buelta Jaime Buelta
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Let Us Begin Our Automation Journey FREE CHAPTER 2. Automating Tasks Made Easy 3. Building Your First Web Scraping Application 4. Searching and Reading Local Files 5. Generating Fantastic Reports 6. Fun with Spreadsheets 7. Developing Stunning Graphs 8. Dealing with Communication Channels 9. Why Not Automate Your Marketing Campaign? 10. Debugging Techniques 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Working with email templates

To send an email, we first need to generate its content. In this recipe, we'll see how to generate a proper template, in both text-only style and HTML.

Getting ready

We should start by installing the mistune module, which will compile Markdown documents into HTML. We will also use the jinja2 module to combine HTML with our text:

$ echo "mistune==0.8.3" >> requirements.txt
$ echo "jinja2==2.20" >> requirements.txt
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

In the GitHub repo, there are a couple of templates we will use—email_template.md in https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Python-Automation-Cookbook/blob/master/Chapter08/email_template.md and a template for styling...

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