Supposing you have a simple text file named contacts.txt with the cellphone numbers you intend to SMS in the following format:
# I have maintained the same name for the source files to the program to send texts in mass,
import argparse
def sms_en_masse(contacts_file, message):
numbers_list = [] # A list data type to hold cellphone numbers from a file
# Open the file with mobile phone contacts and read its content
with open(contacts_file, 'r' ) as phone_numbers:
for cellphone in phone_numbers: # Read the data obtained line by line
print u'Number: %s - Message: %s'%(cellphone, message)
if __name__ == "__main__":
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Read in phone numbers from a text file and send a single SMSs to all of them.")
parser.add_argument('-f', '--file', type=str, nargs='+', help='Path of file with the cellphone numbers')
parser.add_argument('-m', '--message', type=str, help='A message to send to all receipents.')
args = parser.parse_args()
sms_en_masse (args.file[0], args.message)
######
You can invoke the program from the command line in the following manner:
$ python mass_sms.py -f contacts.txt -m 'Hello world.'
Give the correct path to the file with the phone numbers, am assuming they are in the same folder with your Python script.
N.B: You may also need to download and manually install
argparse from the Python packaging index, or use setup tools / pip to get it automatically from PyPI.
Martin.
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Thuo Wilson
<lixton@gmail.com> wrote:
On 26 June 2012 09:27, Martin Chiteri
<martin.chiteri@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Wilson,
Hello Python coders,
Analyze this;
#!/usr/bin/env python
# sample script to show how to same SMS to multiple recipients
import gammu
import sys
# Check parameters count
if len(sys.argv) < 3 or sys.argv[1] in ['--help', '-h', '-?']:
print 'Usage: mass-sms <TEXT> [number]...'
sys.exit(1)
# Configure Gammu
sm = gammu.StateMachine()
sm.ReadConfig()
sm.Init()
# Prepare SMS template
message = {'Text': sys.argv[1], 'SMSC': {'Location': 1}} # HELP ME HERE
# Send SMS to all recipients on command line
for number in sys.argv[1:]: #and here i guess
message['Number'] = number
try:
sm.SendSMS(message)
except Exception, exc:
print 'Sending to %s failed: %s' % (number, exc)
My issue is simple but not sure how to work on it;
I have some texts here;
/usr/bin/python mass-sms.py "we are smart people" `cat /root/numbers.txt`
I want to send the message "We are smart people" to the number in numbers.txt (some cellphone)
My problem is i can only read the first word "we" when i have sys.argv[1], which is OK, sys.argv[1:], i have anything later than and so on...
I think the problem is, as you have figured out, that the parameters collected from the command line are taken in as tuples and accessing them by indexes only gives a part of the string required and not the entire input.
I will suggest you try out the package
argparse for the job [
http://docs.python.org/dev/library/argparse.html ]. I have used it before and it is pretty easy to specify the data types of arguments expected from the user terminal (ints, floats, strings). I can try it out later on in the day and see if it will work with your problem.
Martin.
Thanks, looking forward.
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