逐行文本消息传递-python＆twilio

Question

I am trying to read each line from a .txt file and text-message it line by line with an enumerated number using Twilio to a phone number (using my own to test).

The below reads the file correctly, but only sends a the value of the enumerated list.

So, I receive:

Text Message 1: 1

Text Message 2: 2

Text Message 3: 3

Instead of:

Text Message 1: 1: Hello!

Text Message 2: 2: This is working!

Text Message 3: 3: Last Line

f = open("file_name")
f = list(enumerate(f, start = 1))
    for line in f:
        text = line
        print text
        client = rest.TwilioRestClient(account_sid, auth_token)
        message = client.messages.create(body=text,
            to="Recipient_Number" 
            from_="Twilio_number")
        message.sid

Answer 1

Twilio developer evangelist here.

When you use enumerate that is creating an iterator of tuples. In your for loop you are only retrieving the first item in each tuple and sending that. You can use argument destructuring to get both the index and the text value, like so:

f = open("file_name")
f = enumerate(f, start = 1)
for index, line in f:
    text = index + ": " + line
    print text
    client = rest.TwilioRestClient(account_sid, auth_token)
    message = client.messages.create(body=text,
        to="Recipient_Number" 
        from_="Twilio_number")
    message.sid

Notably, you also don't need to use list as enumerate returns an iterator that can be used with for ... in .

Let me know if this helps at all.