Answer to Retrieving SMS Sender Number

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I came across lots of people asking how to retrieve the Sender's number from a received SMS in Python even if the contact is in your contacts database.
Here is a quick fix:

# Contact Number from Contacts dB
# XenoArts - John Robert Planta

import contacts           #import contact db

db = contacts.open()   #store in a variable "db"

def getSenderNum(sms_sender): 
	found = db.find(sms_sender)   #find in database the contact name
	try: found                   #check if found
	except NameError:
		senderData = found[0]
		senderNum = senderData.find("mobile_number")[0].value
	else:
		senderNum = sms_sender
	
	return senderNum   

#now all you have to do is assign a variable the number of that contact name

mobileNum = getSenderNum(contactName)

#change contactName to whatever variable you stored your  ripped contact

Incorporate this to your code to be able to get the number.
Good Luck.