My python script is creating a PDF that is stored on a shared T: drive. I want to take this PDF and embed it into the body of an HTML email script using the file path. I have sent HTML emails before with images embedded but they have always come from an online source.
Like “src = https:// www . somewebsite.com/image.jpg”
Is there a way to embed this PDF using just the file path?
Thank you
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Method 1
Did a workaround. Made my PDFs into jpegs and then did this:
data = open(rf'path.jpg', 'rb').read() # read bytes from file
data_base64 = base64.b64encode(data) # encode to base64 (bytes)
data_base64 = data_base64.decode() # convert bytes to string
code = '<img src="data:image/jpeg;base64,' + data_base64 + '">' # embed in html
open('output.html', 'w').write(code) #add html to a text file to be read by emailAll methods was sourced from stackoverflow.com or stackexchange.com, is licensed under cc by-sa 2.5, cc by-sa 3.0 and cc by-sa 4.0