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Trouble with Python reserved word "from" as API attribute

Tags: api sms

Oct 28, 2020 at 12:27pm • 1 replies • 0 likes

Dan Berkeland

I want to create a list of phone numbers from my message list using this Python script but am hung up on the 'from' attribute since it is a Python reserved word. Not sure what I am doing wrong. This script results in no numbers.

resp = platform.get('/restapi/v1.0/account/~/extension/~/message-store').json()

messList=resp.records

for i in messList:
    
    try:
      fromMess=getattr(i,'from')
      fromMess=fromMess.phoneNumber

    except:
      fromMess='no number'

    print(fromMess)

1 Answer

Dan Berkeland answered on Oct 28, 2020 at 3:30pm

Solved it this way

resp = platform.get('/restapi/v1.0/account/~/extension/~/message-store').json()

messList=resp.records

for i in messList:
    messID=i.id
    
    try:
      fromMess = platform.get('/restapi/v1.0/account/~/extension/~/message-store/'+str(messID))
      fromMess=fromMess.text()
      fromMess=json.loads(fromMess)
      whoMess=fromMess["from"]["phoneNumber"]
      
      print(whoMess)
            
    except:
      print("skipped message")

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