This is an app that I modded a bit. Original code was written by @ccc
This is my modded version
import clipboard, webbrowser
msg = 'I am texting you through pythonista!'
tel = raw_input('number ') # can be a phone number or Apple ID
clipboard.set(msg) # once iMessage opens, do a Paste into the message body
webbrowser.open('sms:' + tel)
Nice. Here's some UI-goodness wrapped around. (Caveat: Suffers from known bug that doesn't focus the alert input fields and I agree -- still not as nice as Editorial's builtin message-sender).
import clipboard, webbrowser,console,sys
msg = 'I am texting you through pythonista!'
tel=''
try:
tel=console.input_alert('Text Sender','Enter Tel #/AppleID',tel)
msg=console.input_alert('Text Sender','Enter Msg text',msg).strip()
# if len(msg) > 128:
# console.hud_alert('Warning: SMS messages may be truncated)','error',2.00)
except Exception as e:
sys.exit()
clipboard.set(msg) # once iMessage opens, do a Paste into the message body
webbrowser.open('sms:' + tel)