Email Notifier Tutorial

[Exigent]

tried this as my first project on RPi but getting this error when i run the script:

File "./raspi-gmail.py", line 2
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc2' in file ./raspi-gmail.py on line 2, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details

this is what i used to create the file by just copy/paste :

cat <<! > raspi-gmail.py
#!/usr/bin/env python

import RPi.GPIO as GPIO, feedparser, time

DEBUG = 1

USERNAME = "username" # just the part before the @ sign, add yours here
PASSWORD = "password"

NEWMAIL_OFFSET = 1 # my unread messages never goes to zero, yours might
MAIL_CHECK_FREQ = 60 # check mail every 60 seconds

GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)
GREEN_LED = 18
RED_LED = 23
GPIO.setup(GREEN_LED, GPIO.OUT)
GPIO.setup(RED_LED, GPIO.OUT)

while True:

newmails = int(feedparser.parse("https://" + USERNAME + ":" + PASSWORD +"@mail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom")["feed"]["fullcount"])

if DEBUG:
print "You have", newmails, "new emails!"

if newmails > NEWMAIL_OFFSET:
GPIO.output(GREEN_LED, True)
GPIO.output(RED_LED, False)
else:
GPIO.output(GREEN_LED, False)
GPIO.output(RED_LED, True)

time.sleep(MAIL_CHECK_FREQ)
!

Any ideas? Can I just delete the file and start over ?

[Killerspec]

Hi

Looking for some help! I have put together this project and I know that the e-mail thing is working as in Putty window it is showing the updates. My problem is that my LED's stay on all the time no matter what I do I even tried to change the out puts from 18 and 23 to 21 and 24 but no joy please help.

Thanks a million in advance.

Matthew

[Wanders11]

I am having a lot of problems running this script, BUT I have found and solved my instance of the problem you have.

I don't know what the origin of it was, but there were unprintable characters showing up in my raspi-gmail.py after I created it and tried to run it.

I both cut and pasted or handwrote the script using either nano or Leafpad. I removed blank lines and the problem would disappear (for that line - only to be replaced by the same error in the next blank line) SO: What I found were unprintable characters (possibly formatting or control codes) that were carried into the script. Removing the line and reinserting it cured the problem - even when there was a "blank" line. It turns out that the line wasn't blank, just unprintable.

I hope this helps.

[Ron2222]

I am also have a problem making the Gmail Python working. when I run the program here is what I get:
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo ./raspi-gmail.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./raspi-gmail.py", line 21, in <module>
newmails = int(feedparser.parse("https://" + USERNAME + ":" + PASSWORD +"@ma il.google.com/gmail/feed/atom")["feed"]["fullcount"])
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/feedparser.py", line 375, in __ge titem__
return dict.__getitem__(self, key)
KeyError: 'fullcount'

I am new to the Raspberry Pi and Python. If someone would be so kind to help me
Thanks Ron