This is a fun little program to help orchestrate secret santa.
This reads in a list of secret santa participants and randomly assigns each person someone to buy a gift for. In the config.yml file, you specify who should not be matched (e.g. spouses). It then sends each participant an email telling them who they matched with. The email body is configurable from config.yml. It also attaches an .ics calendar file to the email, specifying date time and location. This info is also configurable.
Rename config-sample.yml to config.yml and update as appropriate.
Execute secret-santa.py to test the program. Console output will show you the would-be assignments. This does not send an email.
Once tested, to send emails to your participants, run secret-santa.py from the command terminal using the the -s parameter
python secret-santa.py -s
I ripped off most of the code (yml reading, recursive randomization) from this lovely repo
https://github.com/underbluewaters/secret-santa
Fun way for me to learn some more stuff in python. I added the ics file code.