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passing string to shell using runscript

Asked by Ben Dix on 2021-05-21

Hey 😄
I am trying to send a mail using this code:

def start_user():
    print('sending mail to user')
    mail_sending = """
    powershell
    $EmailFrom = "<email address hidden>"
    $EmailTo = "<email address hidden>"
    $Subject ="Try done"
    $Body ="Content of body"
    $SMTPServer ="smtp.server"
    $SMTPClient = New-Object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($SMTPServer, 587)
    $SMTPClient.EnableSsl = $true
    $SMTPClient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential("<email address hidden>","password");
    $SMTPClient.Send($EmailFrom, $EmailTo, $Subject, $Body)
    """
    returnCode = runScript(mail_sending)

it is working fine, using the right content.
But even after hours of research I can't find a way to insert the fields using variables of my script:

MyMail = <email address hidden>
email = <email address hidden>
and so on for

def start_user():
    print('sending mail to user')
    mail_sending = """
    powershell
    $EmailFrom = str(MyMail)
    $EmailTo = str(email)
    ...

anyone can help me?

thx

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

What you need has nothing to do with Sikulix, but is plain Python syntax.
You need string concatenation to construct the value for "mail_sending".

Something like this:

def start_user():
    print('sending mail to user')
    mail_sending = 'powershell \n'
    mail_sending = mail_sending + '$EmailFrom = "' + MyMail + '\n'
    mail_sending = mail_sending + '$EmailTo = "' + email + '\n'
etc.

Another possibility is substitution with %s

see e.g. https://www.pythonforbeginners.com/concatenation/string-concatenation-and-formatting-in-python

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RaiMan (raimund-hocke) said : 		#2

using the string format option mentioned by Manfred

def start_user(from, to):
    print('sending mail to user')
    mail_sending = """
    powershell
    $EmailFrom = %s
    $EmailTo = %s
    $Subject ="Try done"
    $Body ="Content of body"
    $SMTPServer ="smtp.server"
    $SMTPClient = New-Object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($SMTPServer, 587)
    $SMTPClient.EnableSsl = $true
    $SMTPClient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential("<email address hidden>","password");
    $SMTPClient.Send($EmailFrom, $EmailTo, $Subject, $Body)
    """
    returnCode = runScript(mail_sending % (from, to))

start_user("<email address hidden>", "<email address hidden>")

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Ben Dix (bendix80) said : 		#3

lovley 😄 thx Manfred and RainMan!
I am really thankful for your support!

I'll try as soon as possible!

greetings!

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