Smtplib gives partially initialized module error when trying to use it in python

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I'm trying to make a python script that emails me stuff and i followed this tutorial about how to do it and i thought of making it work using SMTP_SSL()

import smtplib, ssl port = 465 password = input("Type your password and press enter: ") context = ssl.create_default_context() sender_email = "[email protected]" receiver_email = "[email protected]" message = """\ Subject: Hi there This message is sent from Python.""" with smtplib.SMTP_SSL("smtp.gmail.com", port, context=context) as server: server.login(receiver_email, password) server.sendmail(sender_email, receiver_email, message)

But it keeps giving me this error:

ImportError: cannot import name 'SMTP' from partially initialized module 'smtplib' (most likely due to a circular import)

Can anyone help me clarify what this error means and if there's a workaround for it. Any help appreciated.

Roberto Damian Alfonso · Accepted Answer · 2020-10-26 20:51:46Z

I ran into this error too, in my case it was because I named the script email.py.

If anyone face this error in the future, for debugging purposes try using a different filename like my_email_script.py

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