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

I don't see where your blob is rendered, so I can't advise you on how to import it. I've gotten great results using Pisa and StringIO:

import ho.pisa as pisa
import StringIO
from django.template.loader import render_to_string
from django.core.mail import EmailMessage

render = render_to_string("books/agreement/agreement_base.html",
                              { "title": book.title,
                                "distribution": book.distribution_region })
out = StringIO.StringIO()
pdf = pisa.CreatePDF(StringIO.StringIO(render), out)
email = EmailMessage('Hello', 'Body', 'from@from.com', ['to@to.com'])
email.attach('agreement.pdf', out.getvalue(), 'application/pdf')
email.send()

That said, if your PDF exists as an independent and persistent document on your filesystem, couldn't you just:

email.attach('agreement.pdf', open('agreement.pdf', 'rb').read(), 'application/pdf')