poplib Q

[Paul McGuire]

"SuperHik" <junkytownMAKNI at gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi!
>
> I want to connect to gmail but...
> It requires SSL so I worte:
>
>  >>> import poplib
>  >>> server = poplib.POP3_SSL('pop.gmail.com',995)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
>    File "C:\Python24\lib\poplib.py", line 359, in __init__
>      self.sslobj = socket.ssl(self.sock, self.keyfile, self.certfile)
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'ssl'
>  >>>
>
> what's with that?!
> I found an old post to this group, and it connected the same way, only
> it worked.
> (I use PythonWin 2.4.3 on WinXP)
>
> tia!

See if you have a socket.py file in your PYTHONPATH or local directory.

-- Paul