Question

I’m trying to send a mail to users when they signup to my django webapp. After trying the below codes so that it will get the message from a template and present it in the user email in a readable format. But It keeps displaying like this;

   <django.template.base.Template object at 0x033079D0>

Instead of readable format that’s in the template. I want it to display in readable text and not like the above format.

Views:

     Subject='Beta Invite'
     message=loader.get_template('letter.html')
     from_email='[e-mail]'

      def invite_me(request):
          if request.method=="POST":
              form=InviteForm(request.POST)
              if form.is_valid():
                 form.save()
                 #get input data and send email to the user.
                 msg=EmailMessage(Subject,message,from_email,Invite.objects.values_list('email_address', flat=True))
                 msg.send()
                 return HttpResponse('Thanks For Inputting Your Email, Go Check Your Email For Our Invite!')
            else:
                return HttpResponse('Invalid Email Address')
        else:
            form=InviteForm()
            return render_to_response('home.html',{'InviteForm':InviteForm},context_instance=RequestContext(request))

Answer 1

You need to call the templates render method. Something like:

msg=EmailMessage(Subject, message.render(Context()),
    from_email, Invite.objects.values_list('email_address', flat=True))

Note: if you have “context” for the template, you will need to pass it to Context().

Please see the documenation here. They have some good examples (almost exactly this problem)