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Published inJun 2022
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Michael Dinder
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Michael Dinder

Michael Dinder works as a senior backend developer at Cart, Inc. Michael has helped to develop projects for large enterprises such as PayPal and other companies such as Corcoran Pacific Properties, and countless more either directly or indirectly. He has been programming for more than 15 years with a number of different languages and frameworks, with a focus on Python/Django for the past 5+ years.
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Writing custom email templates

Writing HTML as a string in Python can get really messy. We can write the body contents, such as '<b>Hello World</b>', as a .html template file instead. That will allow us to organize multiple email templates into the /templates/emails/ directory of the chapter_7 app. Programming work can also be shared among developers in this way. Email templates can also be used for plain text-formatted emails, placing only the text without any HTML code inside of that .html file. While that may not sound appealing for plain text emails, this does have its benefits when working among a large team of developers. Let's begin with the simplest template using only plain text emails.

Django provides the get_template() method, found in the django.template.loader library. This method will be used for all the email template examples in the following subsections.

For plain text emails

Follow these steps to create a template for a plain text...

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Michael Dinder works as a senior backend developer at Cart, Inc. Michael has helped to develop projects for large enterprises such as PayPal and other companies such as Corcoran Pacific Properties, and countless more either directly or indirectly. He has been programming for more than 15 years with a number of different languages and frameworks, with a focus on Python/Django for the past 5+ years.
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