how to send email in python

Question

import smtplib SERVER = "localhost" FROM = "[email protected]" TO = ["[email protected]"] SUBJECT = "Hello!" TEXT = "This message was sent with Python's smtplib." server = smtplib.SMTP(SERVER) server.sendmail(FROM, TO, message) server.quit()

This is giving the error:

'**The debugged program raised the exception unhandled AttributeError "'module' object has no attribute 'SMTP'" File: /home/an/Desktop/email.py, Line: 13**'

Which version of Python is this?

TML
– TML

2009-05-19 06:12:24 +00:00
Commented May 19, 2009 at 6:12 — TML
– TML, Commented May 19, 2009 at 6:12
Could you get rid of the community wiki. Heh.

Bjorn
– Bjorn

2009-05-19 06:24:08 +00:00
Commented May 19, 2009 at 6:24 — Bjorn
– Bjorn, Commented May 19, 2009 at 6:24

2 revs · Accepted Answer · 2009-05-19 06:22:04Z

12

Rename your file to something other than email.py. Also get rid of any email.pyc file left over. Problem solved.

edited May 19, 2009 at 6:22

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Bjorn Tipling

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joce Over a year ago

It indeed fixes the problem... But what was the source of it?

gecco Over a year ago

email is a module in the standard python library that is used by smtplib. Your file was named "email.py": Your module "email" replaced the standard module of python (because after it in PYTHONPATH)

2 revs, 2 users 67% · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-21 17:10:42Z

5

This happens because email is a built-in library that comes standard with python. If you rename your program to something else (as suggested above), that should do the trick.

edited Jan 21, 2013 at 17:10

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Akhil Jain

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Matthew Flaschen Over a year ago

I didn't realize Python's namespacing was /that/ poor.

SpliFF Over a year ago

it's not a namespace, it is a library. The same thing would happen if you put your own system32.dll or whatever in your exe directory. it's looking for email.py and it just happened to find it in the source directory rather than the python libs directory.

Daniel Roseman Over a year ago

What do you mean, 'poor'? This is an absolute killer feature of Python - the ability to override whatever you like, whenever you like. Python's philosophy is 'we're all consenting adults here', and allows you to do what you like.

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