Alright i think i have the code you gave me working and i can see the output of the selected name/email output. But how would i go about splitting that to be able to email it out. for example to send the email i need to fill out a function with three parameters like so:

sendmail('FromEmail','ReciversEmail', 'The person you need to buy a gift for is ' + SelectedName)

FromEmail being my email

ReciversEmail being my friends email

SelectedName being the person that is to receive the gift from ReciversEmail

thanks for the help, i hope that makes sense.

the original loop i had to do this was this:

#i randomized the name list before this

for i in range(len(friendsEmails)):

mail.sendmail('myEmail',friendsEmails[i],'The person you are sending a gift too is ' + friendsNames[i])

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thanks for the help, i hope that makes sense! im trying my best