Gmail Python multiple attachments

Question

I am trying to create a little script that will email multiple attachments using gmail. The code below sends the email but not the attachments. The intended use is to cron a

Answer 1

Thanks @marc! I can't comment on your answer, so here are few fixes (misnamed variables) and small improvements:

import os
import smtplib
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email import MIMEImage
from email.mime.base import MIMEBase
from email import Encoders

def mail(to, subject, text, attach):
    # allow either one recipient as string, or multiple as list
    if not isinstance(to,list):
        to = [to]
    # allow either one attachment as string, or multiple as list
    if not isinstance(attach,list):
        attach = [attach]

    gmail_user='username@gmail.com'
    gmail_pwd = "password"
    msg = MIMEMultipart()
    msg['From'] = gmail_user
    msg['To'] = ", ".join(to)
    msg['Subject'] = subject

    msg.attach(MIMEText(text))

    #get all the attachments
    for file in attach:
        print file
        part = MIMEBase('application', 'octet-stream')
        part.set_payload(open(file, 'rb').read())
        Encoders.encode_base64(part)
        part.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment; filename="%s"' % os.path.basename(file))
        msg.attach(part)

    mailServer = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com", 587)
    mailServer.ehlo()
    mailServer.starttls()
    mailServer.ehlo()
    mailServer.login(gmail_user, gmail_pwd)
    mailServer.sendmail(gmail_user, to, msg.as_string())
    # Should be mailServer.quit(), but that crashes...
    mailServer.close()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    mail(['recipient1', 'recipient2'], 'subject', 'body text',
         ['attachment1', 'attachment2'])