[Tutor] smtplib starttls() error

[Olen]

Hi Kent and Terry,
             Correct I am using Active state python,and did not read
the full information about installations. Thank you for for the
information.

I just need to confirm something, In python when we "upgrade" we
essentially install a new
version of python , and we would be needing to install what ever
custom packages we have previously installed right?

thank you once again

Olen


On 1/9/07, Terry Carroll <carroll at tjc.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Kent Johnson wrote:
>
> > Are you using the standard Python installer from python.org or something
> > else? SSL support is a build option. It is included in the standard
> > Python for Windows v2.3.5 and 2.4.4. Can you upgrade to the standard
> > 2.4.4 distribution and see if that works?
>
> I'm guessing that Olen is using Activestate's distribution, which does not
> include SSL for export control reasons:
>
>    ActivePython does not include SSL support. Why is this, and how can I
>    add it?
>
>    Here is an answer on python-list while discussing the differences
>    between ActivePython and python.org's Python:
>
>
>    http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-December/315754.html
>    [http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-December/357227.html]
>
>    ...
>    - As Neil pointed out, ActivePython does not currently have SSL
>      bindings (the _ssl module) that python.org's Python builds do. We
>      are currently going through the legal hurdles so that we can
>      include those.  I expect that by or before the Python 2.5
>      timeframe we'll have _ssl in ActivePython.
>    ...
>
>    In the interim just plopping in the _ssl.pyd|so from either
>    python.org's build or from your own build into ActivePython's
>    lib-dynload directory will work to get ActivePython talking SSL.
>
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.4/faq.html#ext_ssl
>
>
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