On 1/11/24 11:27, MRAB via Python-list wrote:
On 2024-01-11 18:08, Rich Shepard via Python-list wrote:
It's been several years since I've needed to write a python script so I'm
asking for advice to get me started with a brief script to separate names
and email addresses in one file into two separate files:
salutation.txt and
emails.txt.
An example of the input file:
Calvin
cal...@example.com
Hobbs
ho...@some.com
Nancy
na...@herown.com
Sluggo
slu...@another.com
Having extracted salutations and addresses I'll write a bash script using
sed and mailx to associate a message file with each name and email
address.
I'm unsure where to start given my lack of recent experience.
From the look of it:
1. If the line is empty, ignore it.
2. If the line contains "@", it's an email address.
3. Otherwise, it's a name.
4. Don't assume it's going to be "plain text" if the email info is
harvested from external sources (like incoming emails) - you'll end up
stumbling over a 誰かのユーザー from somewhere. Process as bytes, or be really
careful about which encodings you allow - which for email "names" is
something you can't actually control.
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