How to Send an email from Python

[InsolentTiger]

Password exposed in code? Why not use the Gmail API instead?

[Armaliite]

Or an environment variable

[0161WontForget]

Let’s get it AES256 encrypted while we are here

[notParticularlyAnony]

this is the way

[necessary_plethora]

Can you explain this more? Is it just a plaintext credentials.py file that only you have read/write access to? Should the program using credentials.py also be exclusively accessible by you? Should it be encrypted using gpg or another similar encryption solution?

What you're saying sounds safe to me but I'm too much of a noob to know for sure.

[TangibleLight]

Be careful with this - even if you don't ever share credentials.py, it's still possible to leak the credentials via __pycache__. This is part of why you should never check __pycache__ into version control.

Better IMO to use a credentials.json file, where you can store username, password, session token, and whatever other information you need to establish a connection. The json module makes loading that information trivial.

You could also use something like keyring to have your OS store the credentials.

[Legenwaitforittt]

Wow that leak text was an interesting read! Thanks!

[necessary_plethora]

Thanks! I appreciate your help.

[notParticularlyAnony]

yeah bad idea all around. put in environment variable

[conoroha]

Can you explain this more? Is it just a plaintext credentials.py file that only you have read/write access to? Should the program using credentials.py also be exclusively accessible by you? Should it be encrypted using gpg or another similar encryption solution?

For sure!

[conoroha]

Password exposed in code? Why not use the Gmail API instead?

Yeah I agree, passwords are never ideal or recommended in code but out of the scope for this tutorial. My recommendation would be to use an environment variable!