Sending an e-mail from a Python Script
The ability to send e-mail is the way to have your Raspberry Pi Zero contact you no matter where you are. Python's vast library collection includes one that makes sending e-mail simple. Let's expand our program to e-mail someone with a graph attachment of our Raspberry Pi Zero temperature output. If you have a project where your device is remote but still able to access the Internet, you might want to get a regular e-mail showing how things are working without having to log on.
Getting ready
If you have been following along, you can continue adding to your rpz_log_analysis.py program. If you want to see the completed code for this recipe, it is available in the /ch4/ directory of the Git repository, named ...
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