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Now let's put what you've learned into practice by creating a Monday
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motivational quote email application. To get warmed up,
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we're going to create a application that looks at the current date and time
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and if it happens to be a particular day of the week,
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let's say a Tuesday,
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then we're going to email ourselves a motivational quote.
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So I found 101 Monday motivational !uotes from a place called the positivity
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blog and I'll link to this as well.
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But the idea is that we all need a little bit of boost on Monday mornings and
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getting an email from Albert Einstein might just be the little nudge that we
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need in order to push us onto a successful week.
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So that's the idea.
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And if you take a look in the starting project that you've already downloaded
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and opened up, that should be a quotes.txt file.
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And here on each line,
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I've placed the quote from the positivity blog,
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and it's got the quote and person on the same line.
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So you can use what you've learned before where we went into how to read files,
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how to open files,
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how to create a list of all of the lines inside a particular text file.
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And you can use that along with what you've learned about sending emails to
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check and make sure that the day of the week is your current day of the week
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because obviously you need to test this. Instead of setting it to check for
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Monday, I want you to check for the current day that you are on.
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So if it happens to be Tuesday, then check for Tuesday, if it Saturday,
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then check for a Saturday and I want your Python code to make that check
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and if it matches today's weekday,
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then to send an email with a random quote from the quotes
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.txt. That's the goal.
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So I want you to pause the video and give it a go.
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Yeah.
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All right. So in order to complete this mini project,
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we first have to import those two modules we learned about; smtplib
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and also the datetime module. And again,
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I'm going to import it as dt, so give it an alias. Next
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we're going to tap into the dt module and we're going to get today's date and
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time. So we're going to use this now method.
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If now is equal to this,
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then today in terms of the weekday is equal to now.weekday.
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And once we've gotten hold of that, then we can check well,
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if the weekday is equal to say Monday
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which would be zero,
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then that means we're going to activate the rest of our code and send ourselves
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the email. But of course, in order to test our code,
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unless you have the patience to wait until next Monday and test your code once
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every week,
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then we probably want to set this to equal to the weekday that we're on
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today. So in my case, I'm on Tuesday so I'm going to set that to equal to 1,
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at least while I'm testing my code. And once I'm done with everything,
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I can reset that to 0 for Monday.
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If the weekday is equal to 1,
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then we're going to initiate our email sending mission.
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But first we have to figure out what we're going to send.
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So we're going to open up our quotes.txt and I'm going to use the with
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and then I'm going to use the open method to open the quotes.txt file that
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I've got right here.
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And I'm going to call this the quote_file. Iside this quote_file
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I've got a bunch of quotes, one on each line.
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So we can use the method called readlines in order to get a list of all of the
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lines in this quote_file and I'm gonna save it into all_quotes.
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Now we can import the random module and we can tap into a random quote.
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So we'll use random.choice and we'll get a random quote from this list of
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quotes.
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Now that we've created our quote inside this with block,
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we can actually go outside of the with block and we can still access our
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quote. So if I go ahead and print our quote,
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you can see we've picked out a random quote. If you want to make an easy job
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seem mighty hard just keep putting off doing it by Olin Miller.
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And this is what we're going to try and send to ourselves using the smtplib.
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Again, inside the same if statement, we're going to create a new connection
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which is created from the smtplib and the SMTP class.
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Now, once we create this class, we have to provide a host.
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So that's the URL of the email server that we're going to use.
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Again, I'm going to use my email as my testing Gmail
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that was appbreweryinfo@gmail.com.
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And then I'm going to put in my password as well as a constant
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so this was abcd1234, and then brackets.
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And then we can add our SMTP URL. Because we know that we're sending it from the
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Gmail email service
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then I'm going to tap into the Gmail SMTP server so that's smtp.gmail.com.
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And instead of saving this as a connection,
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I'm going to use the width method with SMTP as the connection.
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Then using this connection, I'm going to firstly secure it.
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So I'm going to starttls
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and then I'm going to get this connection to log me in.
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So the username is my email and the password is my password.
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Once I've logged in to this connection,
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then I'm going to finally send my email. Now, in this case,
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the from address is going to be my email
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and the to address is also my email.
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I'm just sending an email from myself to myself,
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but it's going to have a different piece of content every time it sends it.
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And that message is going to contain that content.
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So I'm going to change this into an f-string because firstly,
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I want to have a subject which I'll call Monday Motivation
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and then we know that we can add the content by adding two line breaks.
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So let's format this so that it's easier for you to see.
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And I'm going to put it on two separate lines like this.
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Now after these two new lines comes my content
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which is basically going to be my f-string
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that's going to insert my quote right here.
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So now with all of that done and making sure that our weekday is set as the same
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day as today, so weekday ==
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1, that is Tuesday. weekday == 0 means it's Monday.
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Then we can be sort of sure that this code is actually going to run.
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So now if we run our code,
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you can see the quote being printed out here by Bertrand Russell.
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And if we go to our email,
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you can see that email from ourselves. Monday motivation.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's
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work is terribly important.
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So I guess today's motivation is to not take ourselves too seriously.
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But this is essentially what we're looking to achieve.
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So hopefully you managed to get that working. If not,
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you can take a look at my finished code
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including all of the previous actions on smtplib
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sending the email as well as date
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time in the day 32 ending code that you'll find on the course resources page.
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Now we're pretty much ready to tackle our final project,
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which is the automated birthday wisher. So for that,
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and more, I'll see you on the next lesson.