Working with email templates

To send an email, we first need to generate its content. In this recipe, we'll see how to generate a proper template, in both text-only style and HTML.

Getting ready

We should start by installing the mistune module, which will compile Markdown documents into HTML. We will also use the jinja2 module to combine HTML with our text:

$ echo "mistune==0.8.3" >> requirements.txt
$ echo "jinja2==2.20" >> requirements.txt
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

In the GitHub repo, there are a couple of templates we will use—email_template.md in https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Python-Automation-Cookbook/blob/master/Chapter08/email_template.md and a template for styling...