HTML to edit Python script (for email)

[moinz]

I've set up Raspberry Pi 3 with the Picamera, PIR. When motion detected, starts to record. Email is sent too. All is working.

I'm now trying to find a way to edit the python script (the code) in a user-friendly way rather than going directly into the .py script. So for example, if I wanted to change the email address, I could easily do this- maybe in HTML or something?

Below is taken from my script (some omitted)
The parts I would want to change are highlight in bold

myscript.py
----------
....
#sending email

smtpUser = 'myemailaddress@gmail.com'
smtpPass = 'myemailpassword here'

toAdd = 'myemailaddress@gmail.com'
fromAdd = smtpUser

#Subject, header, body
subject = 'subject is here'
header = 'To: ' + toAdd + '\n' + 'From: ' + fromAdd + '\n' + 'Subject: ' + subject
body = 'message here'
s = smtplib.SMTP ('smtp.gmail.com',587)

s.ehlo()
s.starttls()
s.ehlo()
s.login(smtpUser, smtpPass)
s.sendmail (fromAdd, toAdd, header + '\n\n' + body)
s.quit()

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Is this possible? Can I create a webpage / form which is linked to specific part of the script and change it? I've looked online and couldn't find anything. Any help is much appreciated!

[scotty101]

This would generally be considered a bad idea. Hardcoding this kind of information inside code is also considered bad practice.

Some options to consider instead.
1. Store the information in a database (MySQL, SQLite etc etc)
2. Store the information in a text file (consider using JSON or configparser
3. Store it in Environment variables.

Your code can then read the login details from one of these sources.

If you want a web interface to change these things. I'd suggest you look at python-flask, it will allow you to create webpages dynamically with forms, backend access to databases etc etc.

[moinz]

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[moinz]

This would generally be considered a bad idea. Hardcoding this kind of information inside code is also considered bad practice.

Some options to consider instead.
1. Store the information in a database (MySQL, SQLite etc etc)
2. Store the information in a text file (consider using JSON or configparser
3. Store it in Environment variables.

Your code can then read the login details from one of these sources.

If you want a web interface to change these things. I'd suggest you look at python-flask, it will allow you to create webpages dynamically with forms, backend access to databases etc etc.

Thanks for your reply
Just to confirm, it's possible to use Python Flask to create a webpage / form where I can link it with the python script to change a specific setting- i.e. user email address?
Or Storing it in Environment variables? I'm pretty new at this, which would be easiest method?- the web interface or storing it in Environment variables? I have no idea how I would do this

[scotty101]

Thanks for your reply
Just to confirm, it's possible to use Python Flask to create a webpage / form where I can link it with the python script to change a specific setting- i.e. user email address?

Flask will let you create a webpage that can store settings in an intermediate format (database/file/environment variable)

Or Storing it in Environment variables? I'm pretty new at this, which would be easiest method?- the web interface or storing it in Environment variables? I have no idea how I would do this

If you want to change the settings from a web interface, you need to do both.