On 27/02/15 19:43, Willie Sims wrote:
I have started working with 2.7 simply because I don't know when the error
is caused by me or because of version issues.
This is how far I have gotten,
I can access and pull emails that only come from a selected email address
(OWNER)
I have it parsed down to print the subject only
And I have it saving the string to a file output.txt
And I have it deleting the emails so they don't reread,
Now I want to eval the output.txt and act on the keyword that is written,,
That's nearly always a bad idea. eval is a big security risk, especially
if applied to external input. And as you've discovered,
it makes debugging into a bit of a nightmare.
eval output.txt but get the error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python27\New folder\start.py", line 82, in <module>
start_command = eval(open("output.txt").read())
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'test' is not defined
That's probably because a line in output.txt contains the
word test which is not known to python. Without seeing
output.txt it's impossible to be more specific.
import sys
import imaplib
import getpass
import email
import email.header
import datetime
EMAIL_ACCOUNT = "myem...@gmail.com"
EMAIL_FOLDER = "INBOX"
OWNER = "willie14...@outlook.com"
COMMAND_FILE = open("output.txt","w")
def process_mailbox(M):
rv, data = M.search(None, "From", (OWNER))
if rv != 'OK':
print "No messages found!"
return
for num in data[0].split():
rv, data = M.fetch(num, '(RFC822)')
if rv != 'OK':
print "ERROR getting message", num
return
msg = email.message_from_string(data[0][1])
decode = email.header.decode_header(msg['Subject'])[0]
subject = unicode(decode[0])
print 'Message %s: %s' % (num, subject)
COMMAND_FILE.write('%s' % (subject))
COMMAND_FILE.close()
#print 'Raw Date:', msg['Date']
I assume this is where the function is supposed to end?
Note that you are throwing away all the data you find. It is lost when
the function exits. Are the print statements and file output sufficient?
Also note you have the file closure inside the loop. That means you only
get the first item in the file before you close it I'm not clear what
the loop is doing so it might be OK.
M = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com')
try:
rv, data = M.login(EMAIL_ACCOUNT, getpass.getpass())
except imaplib.IMAP4.error:
print "LOGIN FAILED!!! "
sys.exit(1)
print rv, data
rv, mailboxes = M.list()
if rv == 'OK':
print "Mailboxes:"
print mailboxes
rv, data = M.select(EMAIL_FOLDER)
if rv == 'OK':
print "Processing mailbox...\n"
process_mailbox(M)
M.select('INBOX') # select all trash
M.store("1:*", '+FLAGS', '\\Deleted') #Flag all Trash as Deleted
M.expunge()
M.close()
else:
print "ERROR: Unable to open mailbox ", rv
M.logout()
start_command = eval(open("output.txt").read())
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python27\New folder\start.py", line 82, in <module>
start_command = eval(open("output.txt").read())
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'test' is not defined
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