Thanks a lot Alan for the idea, I just tested and I had to do some modifications to the code:
pdfasastring = fpdfobject.output(dest="S") import StringIO sio = StringIO.StringIO() sio.write(pdfasastring) sio.seek(0) The following instruction create a mime type for the attachment and now, the object created (att1) can be used in the mail object att1 = Mail.Attachment(sio, filename="mandatory.ext") mail.send(to=['[email protected]'], subject='An email with a pdf attached to it', message='test', attachments = (att1,) ) BR Jaime El domingo, 17 de marzo de 2013 17:45:53 UTC-6, Alan Etkin escribió: > > > I'm not sure what you mean in the second option > > I meant that you could: > "... even leave the filelike object which receives the fpdf output open > and use that instead as attachment input without the need to write to the > filesystem ..." > > > when you say filelike object what are you referring to? > > http://docs.python.org/2/glossary.html#term-file-object > > > attachments = mail.Attachment(pdf, filename='sample.pdf')) > > What does pdf contain? > > For creating the attachments, this should work for App Engine: > > You should be allowed to get the fpdf output as a string with something > like > > pdfasastring = fpdfobject.output(dest="S") > > Then store this output with a file-like object > > import StringIO > sio = StringIO.StringIO() > > Now store the pdf string on the StringIO object > > sio.write(pdfasastring) > > Perhaps you need to return the seek position in case that the Attachment > class uses the .read() method > sio.seek(0) > > Then, you supposedly can add an attachment with: > > mail.Attachment(sio, filename="mandatory.ext") > > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
