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I'm tasked with getting emails from a .csv file and using them to submit a form. I am using the csv and mechanize Python libraries to achieve this. This is my code:

import re
import mechanize
import csv

def auto_email(email):
    br = mechanize.Browser()
    br.open("URL")
    br.select_form(name="vote_session")
    br['email_add'] = '%s' % (email) #email address
    br.submit()

def csv_emails():
    ifile  = open('emails.csv', "rb")       
    reader = csv.reader(ifile)
    rownum = 1
    for row in reader:
        auto_email(row[0])
        print "%d - %s processed" %(rownum, row[0])
        rownum += 1
    print 'List processed.  You are done.'
    ifile.close()

print csv_emails()

The code works. But I am very much a beginner in Python.

I was wondering whether I have any inefficiencies that you can help me get rid of and optimize the script?

Thanks.

(I used this site heavily in getting to the point of writing the above code so I've had plenty of help from you users of stackoverflow already, thanks).

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I would suggest to use

with open('emails.csv', "rb") as ifile

see here for details: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0343/ in this case you don't need to do ifile.close at the end

instead of incrementing rownum by yourself, you can use

for row, rownum in enumerate(reader):

I don't see the reason to do this

br['email_add'] = '%s' % (email) #email address

instead of

br['email_add'] = email
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email comes from a row returned by csv.reader so it's always a string. –  Gareth Rees Jan 15 '13 at 17:03
    
so in this case br['email_add'] = email is enough. I edited my answer –  RomanI Jan 15 '13 at 17:04
    
Thanks very much guys –  Kelvin Jayanoris Jan 15 '13 at 19:45
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