I have a list of email subjects which were sent today (I connect to my IMAP server, and fetch all emails):
sent_subjects = [
'subject1 backup up completed', 'subject2-2 backup failed', 'subject4 backup partial complete', 'email3 done', 'ak47 failed', 'mp5 is good', 'm4 is good'
]
I have a json file and almost all scripts I have and send email, they have entry there:
emails = [
{'subject': 'mp3 is good', 'date': '2020-02-02'},
{'subject': 'mp5 is good', 'date': '2020-02-02'},
{'subject': 'm4 is good', 'date': '2020-02-02'}
]
And I create subjects like this:
subjects = [x['subject'] for x in emails]
These are all the subjects that should be sent (some of them were not sent):
static_subjects = [
'subject1', 'subject2-2', 'subject4', 'email3', 'ak47', 'subject10', 'email11', 'final destination'
]
subjects += static_subjects
subjects.sort()
I know I can do this, but this does not return the expected output:
final = list(set(subjects) - set(sent_subjects))
Because some subjects like subject1 and subject4 do not have static subject and they may change based on some conditions (these subjects are not mine, and I do not send email with these subjects. I just receive them).
So, I need to check if any subjects of subjects are not in sent_subjects, so I can trace which emails I did not receive, to see if there any issues.
In this case, I did not receive these subjects and the output should have them:
mp3 is good
subject10
email11
final destination
The other thing I know is using if == does not work, because email11 for example is like subject1 and subject2-2 that has two or more subjects (if fails or success).
Would you please help me regarding this?
2
You can try this:
sent_subjects = [
'subject1 backup up completed', 'subject2-2 backup failed', 'subject4 backup partial complete', 'email3 done', 'ak47 failed', 'mp5 is good', 'm4 is good'
]
emails = [
{'subject': 'mp3 is good', 'date': '2020-02-02'},
{'subject': 'mp5 is good', 'date': '2020-02-02'},
{'subject': 'm4 is good', 'date': '2020-02-02'}
]
subjects = [x['subject'] for x in emails]
static_subjects = [
'subject1', 'subject2-2', 'subject4', 'email3', 'ak47', 'subject10', 'email11', 'final destination'
]
subjects += static_subjects
subjects.sort()
final = list(set(subjects) - set(sent_subjects) - set([s.split(' ')[0] for s in sent_subjects])) # here~
The only difference between my code and yours is I exclude set([s.split(' ')[0] for s in sent_subjects]) additionally at last.