Yagmail Python Download Error

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Hi Glitch Community,
I am a Python newb and an even bigger Glitch newb. Recently, I made a program using PyCharm that takes an Excel FIle(.xls or .xlsx), converts it into a CSV File, and then email that CSV File using the Yagmail library in conjunction with a SMTP server. I am now trying to bring this project to Glitch with a Flask framework. My issue is that I am getting an error when I am using “pip install Yagmail” in the glitch console. As a result, I am not able to use Yagmail in my program. Does anyone know a way to overcome this problem or has any overall suggestions?
Thanks,
Aryan Kini

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Try this instead:

# Python 3
pip3 install --user Yagmail
# Python 2
pip install --user Yagmail

Pip by default attempts to run in the global context which requires sudo permissions (which you don’t have in the Glitch container). The --user flag causes pip to only install the module to the current user’s Python distribution.

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Hi @FlantasticDan,
Thank you for all the help that you have given me so much on this project! I tried what you said and this is what appeared in my console

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. That seems to mean that it is already downloaded; however, I am still getting this error in my log
Any thoughts on how to fix this problem?

Thanks,
Aryan Kini

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Glitch doesn’t let me put two images in one post, so here is the second one image

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Would you mind sharing the name or a link to your project so I can take a look?

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Hi @FlantasticDan,
Yeah sure, here it is…https://glitch.com/edit/#!/moc721. It is currently still in development and I have not finished it.
Thanks,
Aryan Kini

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I remixed your project and was able to resolve the error by changing the following in your start.sh file:

# from
python server.py
# to
python3 server.py

It seems Yagmail would only install with Python 3+ so doing this changes your project from the default (and technically unsupported and end of life-ed) Python 2.7 to the more recent Python 3.7.7.

Side note, thank you Glitch for updating to Python 3.7, I don’t know when you did that but I just noticed!

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Hi @FlantasticDan,
Thank you for that fix! It worked in my code and now I am able to send the email. I have another issue :(. I want to send an attachment with the email. I am currently using an input set to file to retrieve the file from the user. How would I get the file path from this?
Thanks,
Aryan Kini