Let us tie this chapter together with a more complex example. The following is the code for the EmailAction class. This action sends an e-mail to the user when the rule is matched.
import smtplib
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
class EmailAction:
"""Send an email when a rule is matched"""
from_email = "[email protected]"
def __init__(self, to):
self.to_email = to
def execute(self, content):
message = MIMEText(content)
message["Subject"] = "New Stock Alert"
message["From"] = "[email protected]"
message["To"] = self.to_email
smtp = smtplib.SMTP("email.stocks.com")
try:
smtp.send_message(message)
finally:
smtp.quit()The following is how the library works:
We instantiate the
SMTPclass in thesmtpliblibrary, passing it the server we want to connect to. This returns theSMTPobject.We call the
send_messagemethod on theSMTPobject, passing in the e-mail message...