How to send variable value via email with smtplib in python3?

Question

I am able to send email when the message is a string directly typed into the function, but not when it is a variable.

This code works:

import smtplib

server = smtplib.SMTP_SSL('smtp.gmail.com', 465)
server.login("something@gmail.com", "somepassword")

server.sendmail(
"something@gmail.com", 
"somethingelse@gmail.com", 
"a manually typed string like this")
server.quit()

But this code, with a variable string, doesn't:

import smtplib

server = smtplib.SMTP_SSL('smtp.gmail.com', 465)
server.login("something@gmail.com", "somepassword")

someVariable = "any string"

server.sendmail(
"something@gmail.com", 
"somethingelse@gmail.com", 
someVariable)
server.quit()

More exactly, this second version does send an email but with an empty body. No characters show up.

How can I make the second version work?

print(someVariable) and print(type(someVariable)) give the right (expected) outputs.

Answer 1

It turns out this worked, inspired by [these docs][1] and by rogersdevop's earlier answer (which didn't work for me):

def sendEmail(msge):

import smtplib
from email.mime.text import MIMEText

msg = MIMEText(msge)

me = 'something@gmail.com'
you = 'somethingelse@gmail.com'
msg['Subject'] = 'The subject line'
msg['From'] = me
msg['To'] = you

s = smtplib.SMTP_SSL('smtp.gmail.com', 465)
s.login("something@gmail.com", "somepassword")
s.send_message(msg)
s.quit()