Error while attempting to send excel attachment using smtplib

Question

I'm trying to send an email with an excel file attached using smtplib in python. I'm getting an error saying: TypeError: 'str' object is not callable

Here is my code:

email_message = email.MIMEMultipart.MIMEMultipart('mixed')
excel_attach = email.mime.base.MIMEBase('application','vnd.ms-excel')

# Gives error "TypeError: 'str' object is not callable"
excel_attach.set_payload(file(absolute_file_location).read())

email.encoders.encode_base64(excel_attach)
excel_attach.add_header('Content-Disposition','attachment;filename={0}'.format(file))
email_message.attach(excel_attach)

Why isn't this working?

EDIT : This appears to be the source of error.... file(absolute_file_location).read() . I've determined this by putting it on a different line.

Answer 1

There was a problem with file(absolute_file_location).read()

I don't know what the problem was, but getting the contents by doing something like...

content = None
with open(file, 'r') as f:
  content = f.read()
  f.close()

excel_attach.set_payload(content)

worked as intended.