Sending Email with attachment in Python

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import smtplib
import mimetypes
from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.MIMEBase import MIMEBase
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
from email.mime.image import MIMEImage
from email.Utils import COMMASPACE, formatdate
from email import Encoders
filePath = "IMAGE_1.PNG"#your file name
From = 'jimmypulikottil@gmail.com'
To = 'e4emerging@gmail.com'
msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['From'] = From
msg['To'] = To
msg['Date'] = formatdate(localtime=True)
msg['Subject'] = 'Sample subject'
msg.attach(MIMEText('Sample message'))
try:
  smtp = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com:587')
  smtp.starttls()
  smtp.login('jimmypulikottil@gmail.com', 'password')
except:
  i = 1
else:
  i = 0
if i == 0:
  ctype, encoding = mimetypes.guess_type(filePath)
  if ctype is None or encoding is not None:
    # No guess could be made, or the file is encoded (compressed), so
    # use a generic bag-of-bits type.
    ctype = 'application/octet-stream'
  maintype, subtype = ctype.split('/', 1)
  if maintype == 'text':
    fp = open(filePath)
    # Note: we should handle calculating the charset
    part = MIMEText(fp.read(), _subtype=subtype)
    fp.close()
  elif maintype == 'image':
    fp = open(filePath, 'rb')
    part = MIMEImage(fp.read(), _subtype=subtype)
    fp.close()
  elif maintype == 'audio':
    fp = open(filePath, 'rb')
    part = MIMEAudio(fp.read(), _subtype=subtype)
    fp.close()
  else:
    fp = open(filePath, 'rb')
    part = MIMEBase(maintype, subtype)
    part.set_payload(fp.read())
    fp.close()
    # Encode the payload using Base64
    Encoders.encode_base64(part)
  part.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment; filename="%s"' % filePath)
  msg.attach(part)
  try:
    smtp.sendmail(From, To, msg.as_string())
  except:
    print "Mail not sent"
  else:
    print "Mail sent"
  smtp.close()
else:
  print "Connection failed"