Question

I currently have some JavaScript code that calls a .php file to send me an email from within a .jsp using an on-click function. It also includes a couple of variables, see below.

<script>
function sendMail(video, user) {
var xmlhttp;
     if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
        xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
     } else {// IE6, IE5
        xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
     }
     xmlhttp.open("GET", "http://www.mydomain.com/sendemail.php?video="+video+"&user="+user+'&ip=<%= request.getHeader("X-Real-IP") %>', false);
     xmlhttp.send();
}
</script>

Calling the script within a .jsp file:

            <a href="${videoUrl}" target="main" onclick="sendMail(parentElement.parentElement.getElementsByTagName('span')[2].attributes['title'].value, '${model.user.username}')">

Now I have a .py (different application than above) file that I would like to call this sendMail function. Section where I want to call the sendMail function in the .py file

def play(self, song_id):
    Addon.log('play: ' + song_id)
    if Addon.get_setting('transcode') == 'true':
        bitrate = self.bitrates[int(Addon.get_setting('bitrate'))]
        Addon.resolve_url(self.build_rest_url('stream.view', 
                                              {'id': song_id,
                                               'maxBitRate': bitrate}))
    else:
        Addon.resolve_url(self.build_rest_url('download.view', 
                                              {'id': song_id}))

Now is there anyway to accomplish this sendMail function but from within a python file? Instead of using the function can I call a URL?

I Frankenstein a webapp I’m running to email me notifications, easiest way I found was to create the JavaScript function and then call some PHP to send an email. Now the python is a different app all together, just trying to figure out how to do the same thing, call the URL to send an email but with Python.

Answer 1

To call a url try the urllib2 module eg:

>>> import urllib2
>>> f = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.python.org/')
>>> print f.read(100)

To send email try the email module starting with any of these examples.

To launch an external process on the same machine (eg the php script) try the SubProcess module