Syntax: python smtplib not working in script

Question

I tried running the following code (named as email.py):

import smtplib    
GMAIL_USERNAME = raw_input("Enter your username: ")
GMAIL_PASSWORD = raw_input("Enter your password: ")    
session = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
session.ehlo()
session.starttls()
session.login(GMAIL_USERNAME, GMAIL_PASSWORD)

This is the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "email.py", line 1, in <module>
    import smtplib
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/smtplib.py", line 46, in <module>
    import email.utils
  File "/home/sourya/VProgramming/projects/email.py", line 6, in <module>
    session = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'SMTP'

However, the code does run when I type it out in the interpreter.

What's wrong?

Answer 1

Try renaming you script (to something other than email.py).

email is a Python module, but your script's name shadows it, and it can't be imported.

Note: Don't forget to remove email.pyc as well.