E mail NameError Error Python

davidmetzler

Hello,
I am sort of new to python and I am encountering an error I just cant get past. This script copies a shapefile to a new location. due to locks I have to run it automatically when services are stopped. I want the script to email me the specific error if there is one or email me a message saying it completed successfully. here is the code:


import os
import arcpy
import smtplib
import string

arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = True
try:
arcpy.CopyFeatures_management ('\\\\petrots\\data\\PAM\\PFS-Survey\\Data\\xyz.shp', '\\\\PETROTS\\arcgisproject\\PAM\\Clients\\PFSSurvey_v1\\Data\\xyz.shp')
except Exception as e:
print e.message
errormessage = e.message

try:
to = 'me@email.com'
gmail_user = 'username'
gmail_pwd = 'password'
smtpserver = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com",587)
smtpserver.ehlo()
smtpserver.starttls()
smtpserver.ehlo
smtpserver.login(gmail_user, gmail_pwd)
header = 'To:' + to + '\n' + 'From: ' + gmail_user + '\n' + 'Subject:testing \n'
print header
msg = header + errormessage
smtpserver.sendmail(gmail_user, to, msg)
print 'done!'
smtpserver.close()
except NameError:
to = 'me@email.com'
gmail_user = 'username'
gmail_pwd = 'password'
smtpserver = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com",587)
smtpserver.ehlo()
smtpserver.starttls()
smtpserver.ehlo
smtpserver.login(gmail_user, gmail_pwd)
header = 'To:' + to + '\n' + 'From: ' + gmail_user + '\n' + 'Subject:testing \n'
print header
msg = header + 'all is good'
smtpserver.sendmail(gmail_user, to, msg)
print 'done!'
smtpserver.close()

When I run it everything is smooth if there is an error however if all is good I get this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "P:\Scripts\copy to Y test.py", line 14, in <module>
errormessage = e.message
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'message'



I thought the except clause would take care of this however it just isn't getting the job done.

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers,
Dave Metzler

StacyRendall1

Dave, the try...except clause you had highlighted was further down the code than where the error was occurring...

Your error is telling you that the object e (which is a string - 'str') has no attribute message. This is possibly because message is the old method (deprecated as of Python 2.6).

The new method goes something like this:

import arcpy

try:
 arcpy.ImportToolbox("popeye")
except Exception as e:
 errormessage = str(type(e)) + '\n'
 for arg in e.args:
  errormessage += '  ' + str(arg) + '\n'
 print errormessage

Firstly it gets the type of the error, then on a new line returns any arguments associated with the error...

This should work:

import arcpy
import smtplib

arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = True
try:
 arcpy.CopyFeatures_management ('\\\\petrots\\data\\PAM\\PFS-Survey\\Data\\xyz.shp', '\\\\PETROTS\\arcgisproject\\PAM\\Clients\\PFSSurvey_v1\\Data\\xyz.shp')
except Exception as e:
 errormessage = str(type(e)) + '\n'
 for arg in e.args:
  errormessage += '  ' + str(arg) + '\n'

 print 'Operation failed, sending error message:\n', errormessage

 to = 'me@email.com'
 gmail_user = 'username'
 gmail_pwd = 'password'
 smtpserver = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com",587)
 smtpserver.ehlo()
 smtpserver.starttls()
 smtpserver.ehlo()
 smtpserver.login(gmail_user, gmail_pwd)
 header = 'To:' + to + '\n' + 'From: ' + gmail_user + '\n' + 'Subject:testing \n'
 print header
 msg = header + errormessage
 smtpserver.sendmail(gmail_user, to, msg)
 print 'done!'
 smtpserver.close()

Let me know how you get on.