Python Matplotlib to smtplib
You can use figure.savefig()
to save your plot to a file. An example where I output a plot to a file:
fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
# Need to do this so we don't have to worry about how many lines we have -
# matplotlib doesn't like one x and multiple ys, so just repeat the x
lines = []
for y in ys:
lines.append(x)
lines.append(y)
ax.plot(*lines)
fig.savefig("filename.png")
Then just attach the image to your email (like the recipe in this answer).
It is also possible to do everything in memory saving to a BytesIO buffer and then feeding the payload with it:
import io
from email.encoders import encode_base64
from email.mime.base import MIMEBase
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
buf = io.BytesIO()
plt.savefig(buf, format = 'png')
buf.seek(0)
mail = MIMEMultipart()
...
part = MIMEBase('application', "octet-stream")
part.set_payload( buf.read() )
Encoders.encode_base64(part)
part.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment; filename="%s"' % 'anything.png')
mail.attach(part)