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Javier Lopez Tomas
Javier Lopez Tomas

Reputation: 2352

How is it possible that I get different results depending on if I run the code statement by statement or as a block?

I have a code for sending an email if a criteria is matched:

import datetime
import smtplib

today = datetime.date.today()
email_date = today
items = [1, 2]
gmail_email = "put_your_email_here"
password = "put your password here"

if email_date == today:
    # send email
    sent_from = gmail_email
    sent_to = ['email_1', 'email_2']
    sent_subject = 'Subject of the email'
    sent_body = ("""Hello,

    This is part of a reproducible code

    Kind regards""")

    email_text = """\
    From: %s
    To: %s
    Subject: %s

    %s
    """ % (sent_from, ', '.join(sent_to), sent_subject, sent_body)

    server = smtplib.SMTP_SSL('smtp.gmail.com', 465)
    server.ehlo()
    server.login(gmail_email, password)
    server.sendmail(sent_from, sent_to, email_text)
    server.close()

However, if I run the entire code, the email that is sent has empty subject and empty body and everything is placed in the "from" of the email.

If I run statement by statement (starting after the conditional) I get the email correctly. What am I missing here?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 56

Answers (1)

AlejandroVD
AlejandroVD

Reputation: 1822

This is probably related to the way you are assigning the text block to the email_text variable. The text is indented, while the email should have the header fields at the beginning of the line. Try changing it to: 

        email_text = """\
From: %s
To: %s
Subject: %s

%s
""" %(sent_from, ', '.join(sent_to), sent_subject, sent_body)

Upvotes: 3

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