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There is a LOT of garbage in this code. Notes to myself, print statements to debug, etc.  But this is the current incarnation of the secret santa code I'm using.  The old XML/Outlook version in C sharp was better, but I ran into email issues with Office moving online and switching employers and ending up on a Mac. Now I just generate .txt files.2022 updates should include getting rid of the separate checks for exclusions and telling it to check for anyone in the full exclusion list so I can make it ragged.Here....target == who[1] or target == who[2] or target == who[0]And there's a lot of unnecessary iterative garbage to make sure it can brute force it's way to a list when it gets toward the end where it might dead end itself.  But to be honest, that doesn't take 100 iterations, it's over in like four. Anyway...I think I can boil this down to a dozen lines of code, so maybe I'll do that next year. Personally, I'm just glad I was able to find it again after moving machines twice in 2.5 years.#0 fix the code >>#0a put the guts of the retry in a function that can error out with an error message#0b and let the error message run a global retry#  load >> run >> each person >> one person fails >> clear and run#1 import from a settings file (don't need a UI although the last one had one)#2 which means we need to write to a settings file#   name, spouse, last year (use the format year(last)file.txt as the default#   use JSON instead of XML this time), ah....need an email address!#3 put it in a bucket (file) in S3, put the code in a python lambda#4 autoemail - lambda send email with ses: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/lambda-send-email-ses/  #2020 list...this needs to generate from input/output#e.g. that last value should be a read from last year's filelistWho = [("Scott","Jen","Jackie")]listWho = listWho + [("Eryn","Scott","Jen")]listWho = listWho + [("Oliver","Jackie","Andrew")]listWho = listWho + [("Jen","Scott","Ceri")]listWho = listWho + [("Andrew","Jackie","Jen")]listWho = listWho + [("Jackie","Andrew","John")]listWho = listWho + [("Allison","Ceri","Andrew")]listWho = listWho + [("Ceri","Allison","Ellen")]listWho = listWho + [("John","Ellen","Scott")]listWho = listWho + [("Ellen","John","Allison")]   def LoopLoop(listWho):    targetExclusion = []       for who in listWho:        #print (len(listWho))        #print(who)        print(" ")        print(" ")        print("Owner: " + who[0])        myRand = random.randint(0,len(listWho)-1)        #print("random: " + str(myRand))        target = listWho[myRand][1]        #print("target: " + target)        myIter = 0        #could put all this in a function and call for success or failure        #eg while false...        #target can't be used already         while target == who[1] or target == who[2] or target == who[0] or target in targetExclusion:            target = listWho[random.randint(0,len(listWho)-1)][0] #I think it was my [1] here that was the mess, never returned somne folks            print("temp target: " + target)                       myIter = myIter + 1            #print(myIter)            if myIter >=100:                print("I FAILED")                return False;                #break #kill it and we will start over         targetExclusion = targetExclusion + [target]        print(targetExclusion)        print("target: " + target)        f= open(str(datetime.now().year) + "_" + who[0] + ".txt","w+")        f.write("YOUR SECRET SANTA RECIPIENT IS: " + target)        f.close()        #do it again        #actually, turn this into the loop    return True; #ah, this is where I"m failing, I have to get to len to return true  print(listWho)mybool = Falseprint(mybool)while mybool == False:    print(mybool)    mybool = LoopLoop(listWho) print ("Mybool = ")print (mybool)print ("end of script")