A simple script for secret santa lotteries supporting lottery emails
Usage: python santa.py names.txt template.txt
names.txt:
A list of names (one name per line) to conduct the lottery on. The format is: First_name Rest_of_the_name email@email.sth.whatever
template.txt:
The template for the message that will be sent. The two supported tags are <PERSON_FIRSTNAME> - first name of the person giving the present and TARGET_NAME - full name of the receiver.
You can write whatever you want in the template. The script will only subsititute the tags.