Sending an emal from gmail in python 3 - email

Question

I'm doing my first project and was reading in my textbook and wrote this program,
import smtplib
password=input(str("Enter your password for example#gmail.com")
smtp0bj.ehlo()
smtp0bj.starttls()
smtp0bj.login('example#gmail.com',password)
smtp0bj.sendmail('example#gmail.com','example2#gmail.com','example3#hotmail.com','subject:Testmail\nTesting,testing,1,2,3,testing'
{}
smtp0bj.quit()
According to my textbook, Automate the Boring Stuff with Python by Al Sweigart, I'm right, but I keep getting an error message. Is there anything I'm doing wrong? Or have I missed a vital step?

Answer 1

One of your problems seems to be a syntax error at the start of the program: when you ask for the password input, you open two sets of brackets input(str(, then only close one set, so adding an extra close-brackets to the end should fix that problem.
You could however, replace the input(str("text")) with just input("text") as what you are trying to do there is convert a string into a string, which is just a waste of time, what you may be trying to do, however is get the input as a string (str(input("text"))), which is needless in this case, as inputs are automatically read as strings in python.
It also seems that you are not defining smtp0bj, I'm not sure where you got the name from, so perhaps another read of the textbook (I'm assuming the name came from the textbook) would reveal a missing line or two.
In case your code doesn't work out, here is a copy of a program that I use to send emails in Gmail through python:
from smtplib import SMTP_SSL as SMTP
import logging, logging.handlers, sys
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
try:
logger = logging.getLogger("__main__")
logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
ch = logging.StreamHandler()
ch.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
formatter = logging.Formatter('%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s')
ch.setFormatter(formatter)
logger.addHandler(ch)
to="" #Recipient's email address
frm="" #Sender's email address
pswd="" #Sender's password
sub="" #Subject of email
text="" #Message to send
msg = MIMEText(text, 'plain')
msg['Subject'] = sub
msg['To'] = to
except Exception as err:
pass
try:
conn = SMTP("smtp.gmail.com")
conn.set_debuglevel(True)
conn.login(frm, pswd)
try: conn.sendmail(frm, to, msg.as_string())
finally: conn.close()
except Exception as exc:
print(exc)
logger.error("ERROR!!!")
logger.critical(exc)
sys.exit("Mail failed: {}".format(exc))
Hope this helps.
EDIT:
I found your book online (https://automatetheboringstuff.com/chapter16/) and found that you have missed a step, defining the smtp server. Adding in the line smtpObj = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587) will allow you to send emails from Gmail.
import smtplib
smtpObj = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
smtpObj.ehlo()
smtpObj.starttls()
smtpObj.login('MyEmailAddress#gmail.com', 'MyEmailPassword')
smtpObj.sendmail('MyEmailAddress#gmail.com', 'RecipientEmailAddress#example.com', 'Subject: SubjectText.\nMessage Text')
smtpObj.quit()
Also: Make sure that your program is not called email.py as tht is the name of one of the modules used in stmplib, so it will raise an AtributeError.