import smtplib
from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.MIMEBase import MIMEBase
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
from email.Utils import COMMASPACE, formatdate
from email import Encoders
import os

def sendMail(to, subject, text, files=[],server="localhost"):
    assert type(to)==list
    assert type(files)==list
    fro = "Expediteur <expediteur@mail.com>"

    msg = MIMEMultipart()
    msg['From'] = fro
    msg['To'] = COMMASPACE.join(to)
    msg['Date'] = formatdate(localtime=True)
    msg['Subject'] = subject

    msg.attach( MIMEText(text) )

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

    smtp = smtplib.SMTP(server)
    smtp.sendmail(fro, to, msg.as_string() )
    smtp.close()


sendMail(
        ["destination@dest.kio"],
        "hello","cheers",
        ["photo.jpg","memo.sxw"]
    )

from subprocess import Popen,PIPE

p = Popen(file, shell=True,stdout=PIPE,stderr=PIPE)
out = string.join(p.stdout.readlines() )
outerr = string.join(p.stderr.readlines() )

import os
out= string.join(os.popen(file).readlines())

os.spawnvp(os.P_WAIT,"/usr/bin/mplayer",["","-ao","pcm",file])

# or 

os.spawnvp(os.P_NOWAIT,"/usr/bin/mplayer",["","-ao","pcm",file])

import os
import stat

def walktree (top = ".", depthfirst = True):
    names = os.listdir(top)
    if not depthfirst:
        yield top, names
    for name in names:
        try:
            st = os.lstat(os.path.join(top, name))
        except os.error:
            continue
        if stat.S_ISDIR(st.st_mode):
            for (newtop, children) in walktree (os.path.join(top, name), depthfirst):
                yield newtop, children
    if depthfirst:
        yield top, names

for (basepath, children) in walktree("/home",False):
    for child in children:
        print os.path.join(basepath, child)