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Python SyntaxError: invalid syntax (help)

Linh Lee

Linh Lee

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Trying to search/delete for specific user with one letter name, "a", and always changing domains.
Some addresses from this spam:
Code: 
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]



Need help please, fixing invalid syntax error.

CODE:
Python: 
from imap_tools import MailBox, A

with MailBox('imap.mail.yahoo.com').login('[email protected]', 'PWD', 'Bulk') as mailbox:
    DELETE messages that contains 'a@*.*' in body from Bulk folder
    mailbox.delete(mailbox.fetch(A(body='a@*.*')))


ERROR:
Code: 
λ python DeleteEmailFiles.py
  File "C:\Users\Desktop\Desktop\Python Spam Buster\DeleteEmailFiles.py", line 5
    DELETE messages that contains 'a@*.*' in body from Bulk folder
           ^^^^^^^^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
 
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My bad, line needed to be commented out!
New error now:
Code: 
λ python DeleteEmailFiles.py
Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "C:\Users\Desktop\Desktop\Python Spam Buster\DeleteEmailFiles.py", line 6, in <module>
    mailbox.delete(mailbox.fetch(A(body='a@*.*')))
  File "C:\Users\Desktop\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\imap_tools\mailbox.py", line 176, in delete
    uid_str = clean_uids(uid_list)
  File "C:\Users\Desktop\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\imap_tools\utils.py", line 30, in clean_uids
    raise TypeError('uid "{}" is not string'.format(str(uid)))
TypeError: uid "<imap_tools.message.MailMessage object at 0x000001A96BC7BD90>" is not string
 
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