Question

I have a small script:

#!/usr/bin/python3.2
#takes the bad_emails out of full_emails and leaves us with good_emails

#This is a manually generated list of bad emails (bounce backs)
bad_list = []
with open("bad_emails.txt","r") as bad:
    for line in bad.readlines():
        bad_list.append(line)
#this is a list of ALL email addresses output by AcyMailing
full_emails = []
with open("full_emails.txt","r") as full:
    for email in full.readlines():
        if email in bad_list:
            pass
        else:
            full_emails.append(email)

#this is a final list containing only the email addresses with want
good_list = []
with open("good_emails","w") as good:
    for email in full_emails:
        good.write(email)

What I’m attempting to do is in short: take a list of email addresses from our mailer program called AcyMailing in Joomla and export it out. It has the following format:
“[e-mail]”
“[e-mail]”
“[e-mail]”

While my above script works (it gets rid of the ‘bad emails’ and leaves me with only the ‘good emails’ I’ve yet to find a way to make each email surrounded by quotation marks like AcyMailing (Joomla) uses. I’ve seen that a number of people use regex for such a task. Is that the only way to do this in python?

Answer 1

You should be able to just wrap the string in quotes:

good.write('"' + email.strip() + '"\n')

Or you can use .format:

good.write('"{}"\n'.format(email.strip()))