Python3 sending emails with attachments doesn't work

[hleumas]

Trying to send an email having an attachment results in following error:

File "/usr/lib/python3.3/email/generator.py", line 211, in _handle_text
    raise TypeError('string payload expected: %s' % type(payload))

I think the problem is in the encode_string method in response.py file. The method returns bytes object in Python3 but the string is expected.

To fix this, just replace

encoded = base64.encodestring(data)

with

encoded = base64.encodestring(data).decode('ascii')

The same fix needs to be done with quopri.encodestring

These changes applies only to python3 version.

[t2y]

Python 2.x email.generator expects basestring (means str or unicode), so it can decode with 'ascii' even if in Python 2.x.

• python2.7/email/generator.py

        if not isinstance(payload, basestring):
            raise TypeError('string payload expected: %s' % type(payload))

[lorenzogil]

I can confirm this bug. I also confirm the fix by t2y is correct.

Please, merge it as soon as possible and release a 0.10.1 version. I had to remove Python 3 support for my application because of this :-(

Let me know if there is something I can do to help here.

[t2y]

I also hope to be merged and I can help.

[tseaver]

I have pushed the change, but don't have the rights on PyPI to release the package. mmerickel, can you release?