NameError: name '...........' is not defined

[new2py]

Hello I am very new to Python and need help with this script I found online. Every time I run it I get this error in PyCharm

FOLDER = EMPLOYMENT
NameError: name 'EMPLOYMENT' is not defined

The script is supposed to get all the email addresses in my gmail account and put them in a folder

#!/usr/bin/python

import imaplib
import sys
import email
import re

FOLDER = sys.argv[0]
FOLDER = EMPLOYMENT
LOGIN = yourusername
PASSWORD = yourpassword
IMAP_HOST = imap.gmail.com  # Change this according to your provider

email_list = []
email_unique = []

mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(IMAP_HOST)
mail.login(LOGIN, PASSWORD)
mail.select(FOLDER) 

result, data = mail.search(None, 'ALL')
ids = data[0]
id_list = ids.split()
for i in id_list:
	typ, data = mail.fetch(i,'(RFC822)')
	for response_part in data:
		if isinstance(response_part, tuple):
			msg = email.message_from_string(response_part[1])
			sender = msg['from'].split()[-1]
			address = re.sub(r'[<>]','',sender)
# Ignore any occurences of own email address and add to list
	if not re.search(r'' + re.escape(LOGIN),address) and not address in email_list:
		email_list.append(address)
		print(address)

[ichabod801]

On line 9, you have EMPLOYMENT. That is a variable name, and you have not defined a value for it by line 9. Variable names have to be on the left side of an assignment before they can be on the right side of an assignment.

[new2py]

Hi I'm new at this as this is my first python script I found it online. The program below is supposed to get all the email addresses from my inbox and save them to a folder named EMPLOYMENT. I got the program to run with no errors:

Process finished with exit code 0

but nothing happened, I didn't see one single email address. Could you please help me understand what I'm missing?

#!/usr/bin/python

import imaplib
import sys
import email
import re

FOLDER = sys.argv[0]
FOLDER = "EMPLOYMENT"
LOGIN = "[email protected]"
PASSWORD = "yourpassword"
IMAP_HOST = "imap.gmail.com"  # Change this according to your provider

email_list = []
email_unique = []

mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(IMAP_HOST)
mail.login(LOGIN, PASSWORD)
mail.select(FOLDER) 

result, data = mail.search(None, 'ALL')
ids = data[0]
id_list = ids.split()
for i in id_list:
	typ, data = mail.fetch(i,'(RFC822)')
	for response_part in data:
		if isinstance(response_part, tuple):
			msg = email.message_from_string(response_part[1])
			sender = msg['from'].split()[-1]
			address = re.sub(r'[<>]','',sender)
# Ignore any occurences of own email address and add to list
	if not re.search(r'' + re.escape(LOGIN),address) and not address in email_list:
		email_list.append(address)
		print(address)

[hbknjr]

As the other answer suggested, you may want to assign value to EMPLOYMENT before line 9. Or put 'EMPLOYMENT' in quotes if its the folder name

[buran]

The program below is supposed to get all the email addresses from my inbox and save them to a folder named EMPLOYMENT

Actually it is looking for folder EMPLOYMENT in your mailbox and should search emails in this folder. I would comment out line#19 (the default is INBOX) and see what would happen. Note that it will just print e-mail addresses in the console. You are doing nothing with email_list that is created

[new2py]

Thanks, I added quotes to identify the names, the script ran successfully, but nothing happened, it did nothing.

[nilamo]

result, data = mail.search(None, 'ALL')

That's line 21.  If you add some print functions, do you get any output?

result, data = mail.search(None, 'ALL')
print(result)
print(data)

[new2py]

I added the following like you said and ran in PyCharm:

#!/usr/bin/python

import imaplib
import sys
import email
import re

FOLDER = sys.argv[0]
FOLDER = "EMPLOYMENT"
LOGIN = "emailaddresshere"
PASSWORD = "passwordhere"
IMAP_HOST = "imap.gmail.com"  # Change this according to your provider

email_list = []
email_unique = []

mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(IMAP_HOST)
mail.login(LOGIN, PASSWORD)
mail.select(FOLDER)

result, data = mail.search(None, 'ALL')
print(result)
print(data)
ids = data[0]
id_list = ids.split()
for i in id_list:
	typ, data = mail.fetch(i,'(RFC822)')
	for response_part in data:
		if isinstance(response_part, tuple):
			msg = email.message_from_string(response_part[1])
			sender = msg['from'].split()[-1]
			address = re.sub(r'[<>]','',sender)
# Ignore any occurences of own email address and add to list
	if not re.search(r'' + re.escape(LOGIN),address) and not address in email_list:
		email_list.append(address)
		print(address)

and nothing happened all i got was this:

C:\Users\mattis\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\python.exe C:/Users/mattis/Documents/email_addy_extrac.py
OK
[b'']

Process finished with exit code 0

[new2py]

I found this script online that is supposed to get all the email addresses in my Inbox and print them to a folder, it successfully ran in PyCharm but nothing happened. I didn't see any email addresses, please help

#!/usr/bin/python

import imaplib
import sys
import email
import re

FOLDER = sys.argv[0]
FOLDER = "EMPLOYMENT"
LOGIN = "emailaddresshere"
PASSWORD = "passwordhere"
IMAP_HOST = "imap.gmail.com"  # Change this according to your provider

email_list = []
email_unique = []

mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(IMAP_HOST)
mail.login(LOGIN, PASSWORD)
mail.select(FOLDER)

result, data = mail.search(None, 'ALL')
ids = data[0]
id_list = ids.split()
for i in id_list:
	typ, data = mail.fetch(i,'(RFC822)')
	for response_part in data:
		if isinstance(response_part, tuple):
			msg = email.message_from_string(response_part[1])
			sender = msg['from'].split()[-1]
			address = re.sub(r'[<>]','',sender)
# Ignore any occurences of own email address and add to list
	if not re.search(r'' + re.escape(LOGIN),address) and not address in email_list:
		email_list.append(address)
		print(address)

result after running the script:

Process finished with exit code 0

[nilamo]

OK
[b'']

So you're communicating fine with the imap server, but it's telling you that there's no messages in the EMPLOYMENT folder.
Maybe try mail.list() (https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/imap...IMAP4.list) so you can see what it is, exactly, that the server recognizes as folder names?