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I was unable to find an answer to this error on the existing questions so here it goes.
I'm trying to send an email to a list of email addresses imported from an CSV file using Python, gmail and the smtplib library.
This is the code:

import smtplib

import csv



from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart

from email.mime.text import MIMEText



MY_ADDRESS = 'myemailaddress'

PASSWORD = 'mypassword'



def get_contacts(filename):

    """

    Return email addresses read from a file specified by filename.

    """



    emails = 

    with open(filename, newline='') as contacts_file:

        emailreader = csv.reader(contacts_file, delimiter=' ', quotechar='|')

        for a_contact in emailreader:

            emails.append(a_contact)

    return emails





def main():

    emails = get_contacts('mycontacts.csv') # read contacts

    message_template = """Test message goes here"""



    # set up the SMTP server

    s = smtplib.SMTP(host='smtp.gmail.com', port=587)

    s.starttls()

    s.login(MY_ADDRESS, PASSWORD)



    # For each contact, send the email:

    for email in zip(emails):

        msg = MIMEMultipart()       # create a message



        # add in the actual person name to the message template

        message = message_template



        # Prints out the message body for our sake

        print(message)



        # setup the parameters of the message

        msg['From']=MY_ADDRESS

        msg['To']=email

        msg['Subject']="This is TEST"



        # add in the message body

        msg.attach(MIMEText(message, 'plain'))



        # send the message via the server set up earlier.

        s.send_message(msg)

        del msg



    # Terminate the SMTP session and close the connection

    s.quit()



if __name__ == '__main__':

    main()

I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "py_mail.py", line 58, in <module>

    main()

  File "py_mail.py", line 51, in main

    s.send_message(msg)

  File "/home/hugo/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/smtplib.py", line 942, in send_message

    to_addrs = [a[1] for a in email.utils.getaddresses(addr_fields)]

  File "/home/hugo/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/email/utils.py", line 112, in getaddresses

    all = COMMASPACE.join(fieldvalues)

TypeError: sequence item 0: expected str instance, tuple found

It looks to me like the error occurs while trying to read an email from the email list but I can't figure it out to be honest.
Any help or links to a related answer is welcome.

UPDATE: I was using zip because that's what the original script did (https://medium.freecodecamp.org/send-emails-using-code-4fcea9df63f). After removing it the error went away but a new one appeared: TypeError: sequence item 0: expected str instance, list found My only problem now is how to change my emails list to an acceptable input for smtplib

You have to change for email in zip(emails) to for email in emails.