cleaning up email templates

rowers/tasks.py

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import gc
 import gzip
 import shutil
 import numpy as np
-
+import re
 
 from scipy import optimize
 
@@ -30,6 +30,13 @@ import pandas as pd
 
 from django_rq import job
 from django.utils import timezone
+from django.utils.html import strip_tags
+
+def textify(html):
+    # Remove html tags and continuous whitespaces 
+    text_only = re.sub('[ \t]+', ' ', strip_tags(html))
+    # Strip single spaces in the beginning of each line
+    return text_only.replace('\n ', '\n').strip()
 
 from utils import deserialize_list
 
@@ -640,9 +647,9 @@ def handle_sendemailcsv(first_name, last_name, email, csvfile,**kwargs):
 
     from_email = 'Rowsandall <info@rowsandall.com>'
 
-    text_content = plaintext.render(d)
     html_content = htmly.render(d)
-                
+    text_content = textify(html_content)
+
     msg = EmailMultiAlternatives(subject, text_content, from_email, [fullemail])
     msg.attach_alternative(html_content, "text/html")