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Created November 22, 2016 15:18
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from random import shuffle
# format of the file
# name email\nname email\nname email...
people = open('people.txt').read().split('\n')[:-1]
shuffle(people)
TMPL = """Dear {},
I'm inviting you to a fun game of Secret Santa. Secret Santa is a fun game in which everyone buys gifts for one other person, who doesn't know who bought their gift.
The person you have to buy a gift for is {}. The budget for this year is 15€.
We will be exchanging gifts at our Christmas Party, on December 1st.
See ya there!
Secret Santa's helper Malicious Carly
"""
for giver, receiver in zip(people, people[1:] + people[:1]):
giver_name, giver_email = giver.split(' ')
receiver_name, _ = receiver.split(' ')
print(giver_email)
print()
print(TMPL.format(giver_name, receiver_name))
print()
print('=' * 40)
print()
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