Django, ReportLab PDF Generation attached to an email

Question

What\'s the best way to use Django and ReportLab to generate PDFs and attach them to an email message?

I\'m using a SimpleDocTemplate and can attach the generated PDF to

Answer 1

Using ReportLab

try:
    from cStringIO import StringIO
except ImportError:
    from StringIO import StringIO
from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas
from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import letter, A4
from reportlab.lib.units import inch

def createPDF(request):
 x=100
 y=100
 buffer=StringIO()
 p=canvas.Canvas(buffer,pagesize=letter)
 p.drawString(x,y,"HELLOWORLD")
 p.showPage()
 p.save() 
 pdf=buffer.getvalue()
 buffer.close() 
 return pdf

def someView(request):
 EmailMsg=mail.EmailMessage(YourSubject,YourEmailBodyCopy,'email@email.com',["email@email.com"],headers={'Reply-To':'email@email.com'})
 pdf=createPDF(request)
 EmailMsg.attach('yourChoosenFileName.pdf',pdf,'application/pdf')
 EmailMsg.send()

Works perfectly!!