projects/Store_emails_in_csv/store_emails.py: don't silently eat exceptions

import logging; display a log message when something goes wrong

Author: tripleee

projects/Store_emails_in_csv/store_emails.py

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 import email
 from email import policy
 import imaplib
+import logging
 import os
 import ssl
 
@@ -13,6 +14,8 @@
 credential_path = "credentials.txt"
 csv_path = "mails.csv"
 
+logger = logging.getLogger('imap_poller')
+
 host = "imap.gmail.com"
 port = 993
 ssl_context = ssl.create_default_context()
@@ -66,8 +69,8 @@ def write_to_csv(mail, writer):
  "utf-8"
  )
  email_text = get_text(email_body)
- except Exception:
- pass
+ except Exception as exc:
+ logger.warning('Caught exception: %r', exc)
  if (
  content_type == "text/plain"
  and "attachment" not in content_disposition
@@ -93,6 +96,8 @@ def write_to_csv(mail, writer):
 def main():
  mail, messages = connect_to_mailbox()
 
+ logging.basicConfig(level=logging.WARNING)
+
  total_no_of_mails = int(messages[0])
  # no. of latest mails to fetch
  # set it equal to total_no_of_emails to fetch all mail in the inbox
@@ -103,8 +108,8 @@ def main():
  writer.writerow(["Date", "From", "Subject", "Text mail"])
  try:
  write_to_csv(mail, writer)
- except Exception as e:
- print(e)
+ except Exception as exc:
+ logger.warning('Caught exception: %r', exc)
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":