Chilkat2-Python

Set a MIME Body from HTML

Demonstrates the Chilkat Mime.SetBodyFromHtml method, which sets the body as HTML and changes the media type to text/html. The only argument is the HTML text.

Background: Setting an HTML body is how you produce the rich-formatted part of a message. Chilkat marks it text/html and chooses the encoding based on the content — 7bit for ASCII, a charset-aware encoding otherwise. In practice an HTML email is usually paired with a plain-text alternative inside a multipart/alternative so clients that cannot render HTML still have readable text.

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import sys
import chilkat2

success = False

# Demonstrates the Mime.SetBodyFromHtml method, which sets the body as HTML and changes the media
# type to text/html.  The only argument is the HTML text.

mime = chilkat2.Mime()

html = "<html><body><h1>Hello</h1><p>This is an HTML body.</p></body></html>"
success = mime.SetBodyFromHtml(html)
if (success == False):
    print(mime.LastErrorText)
    sys.exit()

print("Content-Type: " + mime.ContentType)