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When ever I try to import smtplib in the Python interpreter, I get this error:

ImportError: cannot import name fix_eols

How can I fix this?

Edit: Here is the full stack trace:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.10_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/smtplib.py", line 46, in <module> import email.utils File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.10_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/email/utils.py", line 32, in <module> from email._parseaddr import quote File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.10_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/email/_parseaddr.py", line 16, in <module> import time, calendar File "/Users/aaronblock/Documents/programming/scripts/calendar.py", line 7, in <module> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/apiclient/__init__.py", line 19, in <module> from googleapiclient import discovery File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/googleapiclient/discovery.py", line 38, in <module> from email.generator import Generator File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.10_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/email/generator.py", line 15, in <module> from email.header import Header File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.10_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/email/header.py", line 16, in <module> import email.quoprimime File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.10_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/email/quoprimime.py", line 49, in <module> from email.utils import fix_eols ImportError: cannot import name fix_eols
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  • Please include the full stack trace. Commented Dec 1, 2015 at 15:22
  • @horns I added the full stack trace Commented Dec 1, 2015 at 15:27

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Just to point out how to detect this kinds of errors (since it does happen from time to time):

Pay attention to the stacktrace. In this example, the problem can be seen in the line:

File "/Users/aaronblock/Documents/programming/scripts/calendar.py", line 7, in <module>

which certainly indicates wrong file being imported when we're trying to import a system-wide library.

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I had a file called "calendar.py" which messes up my Python environment because smtplib needs calendar.py in order to work. Deleting calendar.py solved my problem.

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