#!/usr/bin/python

import smtplib
from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.MIMEBase import MIMEBase
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
from email import Encoders
import os

def send_a_picture():
    gmail_user = "your_email_address"
    gmail_pwd = "Your_Password"

    def mail(to, subject, text, attach):
       msg = MIMEMultipart()

       msg['From'] = gmail_user
       msg['To'] = to
       msg['Subject'] = subject

       msg.attach(MIMEText(text))

       part = MIMEBase('application', 'octet-stream')
       part.set_payload(open(attach, 'rb').read())
       Encoders.encode_base64(part)
       part.add_header('Content-Disposition',
               'attachment; filename="%s"' % os.path.basename(attach))
       msg.attach(part)

       mailServer = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com", 587)
       mailServer.ehlo()
       mailServer.starttls()
       mailServer.ehlo()
       mailServer.login(gmail_user, gmail_pwd)
       mailServer.sendmail(gmail_user, to, msg.as_string())
       mailServer.close()

    mail("Email_address_you_are_sending_to",
       "Hello from python!",
       "This is a email sent with python",
       "name_of_the_file_that_is_being_attached")


send_a_picture()