[Tutor] Trouble with a Recipe ...

[Garry Bettle]

Many, many thanks Vern.

For the life of me, I couldn't remember [] are for lists:  I was trying with ().

Guess I picked a bad day to stop sniffing glue!

Cheers,

Garry

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 15:55, Vern Ceder<vceder at canterburyschool.org> wrote:
> At the top in the docstring it says, '"To", "Cc" and "Bcc" values must be
> *lists*'.
>
> That means instead of "To":  "garry.bettle at gmail.com", you need "To":
> ["garry.bettle at gmail.com"] i.e. a list containing the destination address.
> That's so that you could send to, cc and bcc more than one address.
>
> HTH,
>
> Vern
>
>
> Garry Bettle wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Hope this email finds everyone well - roll on the weekend.
>>
>> I'm trying to run http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576824/
>>
>> I'm in IDLE and I try:
>>
>>>>> email_it_via_gmail( {"To": "garry.bettle at gmail.com", "Subject":
>>>>> "Testing", "From": "garry.bettle at gmail.com"}, text="Testing")
>>
>> but I get the following error:
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "<pyshell#17>", line 1, in <module>
>>    email_it_via_gmail( {"To": "garry.bettle at gmail.com", "Subject":
>> "Testing", "From": "garry.bettle at gmail.com"}, text="Testing")
>>  File "C:\Documents and Settings\Garry\Desktop\recipe-576824-1.py",
>> line 50, in email_it_via_gmail
>>    + headers.get("Bcc", [])
>> TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'list' objects
>>
>> Sorry, but I according to the recipe I don't need a Bcc.
>>
>> Sorry, again, for such a simple question!
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Garry
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