On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 7:04 AM, Laura Creighton <l...@openend.se> wrote:
> In a message of Wed, 17 Jun 2015 02:05:49 +0100, Oliver Mercer-Deadman writes:
>>Hi I am a complete newbie but am hoping to learn some python for a
>>particular project. Before I hurl myself in I would like to know if a key
>>element is going to be possible.
>>
>>I will need to be able to use a variable as the username in an email
>>address. E.G.
>>
>>username = Input("Enter Something: ")
>>
>>Then later when sending email with SMTP
>>to_addr = 'usern...@mycompany.com'
>>
>>I realise that it is probably not correct, I am only in the foothills, but
>>in principal can it be done?If the user input value is just the name, then you need to concatinate with the part starting with the @. Like this: to_addr = username + '@mycompany.com' >> >>Thanks, >>Ozzy > > You can do this. Works great. Note, you will want to be using the > smtplib that is part of the Python standard library and not write > all of the code for talking to SMTP yourself. Somebody else has > already done this for you. > > Interesting tutorial here: > http://pymotw.com/2/smtplib/ > But be warned, this uses Python 2 syntax, not Python 3. > > Laura > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
