How to send a zip file as an attachment in python?

Question

I have looked through many tutorials, as well as other question here on stack overflow, and the documentation and explanation are at minimum, just unexplained code. I would

Answer 1

I don't really see the problem. Just omit the part which creates the zip file and, instead, just load the zip file you have.

Essentially, this part here

msg = MIMEBase('application', 'zip')
msg.set_payload(zf.read())
encoders.encode_base64(msg)
msg.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment', 
               filename=the_file + '.zip')
themsg.attach(msg)

creates the attachment. The

msg.set_payload(zf.read())

sets, well, the payload of the attachment to what you read from the file zf (probably meaning zip file).

Just open your zip file beforehand and let this line read from it.