Python3 gmail and conky [solved by using python2]

Question

I have become quite dependent on conky displaying the contents of my gmail mailboxes and something seems to have broken since python3 came about.
Can anyone with python knowledge point me to how to get it working again?
Old code
## needs The urllib and feedparser Python libraries
import sys
import urllib3 # For BasicHTTPAuthentication
import feedparser # For parsing the feed
from textwrap import wrap
_URL = "https://mail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom"
uname = sys.argv[1]
password = sys.argv[2]
maxlen = sys.argv[3]
urllib.FancyURLopener.prompt_user_passwd = lambda self, host, realm: (uname, password)
def auth():
'''The method to do HTTPBasicAuthentication'''
opener = urllib.FancyURLopener()
f = opener.open(_URL)
feed = f.read()
return feed
def readmail(feed, maxlen):
'''Parse the Atom feed and print a summary'''
atom = feedparser.parse(feed)
print '%s' % (len(atom.entries))
if __name__ == "__main__":
f = auth() # Do auth and then get the feed
readmail(f, int(maxlen)) # Let the feed be chewed by feedparser
error
File "theabovescript.py", line 26
print '%s' % (len(atom.entries))
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Last edited by tawan (2010-10-19 20:05:50)

Answer 1

Thanks for the above - my python2 script broke again recently, even with the hacks, so I've taken your python3 one and adapted to my needs
fuzymonkey wrote:
I've managed to hack this together:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import urllib.request
import re
URL = "https://mail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom"
username = "username"
password = "********"
def find(term, lines):
for line in lines:
if re.search(term, line):
return line
print("?")
exit(1)
def get_feed():
auth_handler = urllib.request.HTTPBasicAuthHandler()
auth_handler.add_password(realm = "New mail feed", uri = "https://mail.google.com/", user = username, passwd = password)
opener = urllib.request.build_opener(auth_handler)
urllib.request.install_opener(opener)
try:
feed = urllib.request.urlopen(URL).read()
except urllib.error.URLError:
print("?")
exit(1)
return feed
xml = get_feed()
xml = xml.decode()
linebyline = xml.splitlines()
count = find("<fullcount>", linebyline)
count = re.sub("^.*(\d+).*$", r"\1", count)
print(count)