Python Smtplib Tutorial – howto send HTML EMAIL with Python

Posted on October 28, 2025 by Marco Antonio Carcano

The Python Smtplib Tutorial - howto send HTML EMAIL with Python is explains how to send HTML emails using SMTP, including auth, SMTP with TLS and SMTPS.

After introducing Python smtplib, the post provides an hands-on example showing how to add HTML email notification to an existing scirpt. The provided code supports every kind of SMTP connection - SMTP, SMTP with startTLS and SMTPS.

This post completes the trilogy we started with the JINJA2 With Python Tutorial JINJA Ansible HowTo and Python Argparse Tutorial - Argparse HowTo posts.

Python Argparse Tutorial – Argparse HowTo

Posted on October 22, 2025October 28, 2025 by Marco Antonio Carcano

The Python Argparse Tutorial - Argparse HowTo post provides a practical example of how to parse command line parameters and options using the argparse module.

Knowing how to add command line paramenters and options to Python scripts is a must-have skill, since it enables them to better adapt to customers' needs, allowing them to enable or disable specific script features, or providing information on the operational environment structure, such as specific directory paths different from the default ones.

As a professional, you are supposed to always add command line arguments support to your scripts, so to make them always fit to the user-specific scenarios.