system-config/tools/invite2summit/README.rst
Jeremy Stanley 6bfb87071e Use PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 for invites invocation
Since the send.py script for invites uses print to emit progress
including the names of contacts to which messages are sent,
redirecting stdout of the script to a local file can result in
encoding errors if some of the names include non-ASCII codepoints
(but not when stdout is your interactive terminal). Setting
PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 in the calling environment works around this
nicely.

Change-Id: I52b70c64f8b3a20da5143b31c5090192b0c75c99
2017-03-06 20:57:26 +00:00

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Summit Invite Script

It sends codes from codes.csv to ATCs in atc.csv and outputs a csv file with which name corresponds to which code.

You use it like this:

  • Copy settings.py.sample to settings.py
  • Update values in settings.py, especially EMAIL_USER, EMAIL_FROM, EMAIL_SIGNATURE and EMAIL_PASSWORD
  • Note that literal $ characters in the template which are not part of a substitution variable (such as dollar amounts) should be doubled to escape them like ... a $$600-off discount code ... so as to avoid raising ValueError: Invalid placeholder in string: line <X>, col <Y>
  • Run a test with PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 python send.py atc_sample.csv codes_sample.csv > sent_sample.csv

Should work on stock Ubuntu.

When ready, run the real thing with:

$ PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 python send.py atc.csv codes.csv > sent.csv