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To finish this quite quick section, we are going to see how to add an attachment to an email.

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Okay, that's going to be very useful also for the final project of the course.

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So we can send any file we want.

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Let's make a quick test with just a text file that I'm going to create here on the Raspberry Pi.

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So I open a new terminal and well let's create it in the home directory okay.

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We can create a file with touch or directly with Nano because I'm going to write to it.

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So nano file to join.

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And let's add an extension okay dot txt because then if I open the email let's say on windows and I

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download this file here and I want to open it, maybe it's going to be easier with a txt extension.

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So nano file to join dot txt and let's write.

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This text file has been created under Raspberry Pi okay.

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You can write whatever you want Ctrl s Ctrl x.

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Great.

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Now we have our file here and how to send that file through email.

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Well you just go back to the code.

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Here we have two subject contents.

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You're going to add a comma here.

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Go back to a new line.

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And we are going to put attachments okay.

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With an S.

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Then you are going to put an equal again and the path to the file.

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So here.

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Slash home.

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Slash pi.

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Here again we use the absolute path.

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Okay.

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It's better slash.

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And the file was named.

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So file to join.

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Dot txt.

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So make sure you put the correct path.

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Then we close the parenthesis.

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Okay.

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So now we have two subject contents and attachments.

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And that's the same thing okay.

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We don't change anything else in the code.

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Let's uh run that actually let's just change the subject here.

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Second email for example.

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Let's send that.

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So you see email sent after a few seconds and I am back to my personal email inbox.

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And you see I have a new email here from Raspberry Pi at gmail.com.

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With the second email subject we have hello from Raspberry Pi and we have a file here, so file to join

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dot txt.

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If I open that one I can see a preview and you see this text file has been created on the Raspberry

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Pi.

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So now you know how to send an email and also send files with this email.

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And that's the end of this section with the Python and Terminal basics that you got already.

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You can see that sending an email with a Python module is really not that hard, and you can replicate

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that for any of your future projects.