[Tutor] Sending an email alert

[Kent Johnson]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Marc<marc at marcd.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> I am trying to code an email alert and am running into the following error:
>
> Connecting to server
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
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>   File "C:\Users\Marc1\Documents\Python\email test\email.py", line 1, in
> <module>
>
>     import smtplib
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>   File "C:\Python26\lib\smtplib.py", line 46, in <module>
>
>     import email.utils
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>   File "C:\Users\Marc1\Documents\Python\email test\email.py", line 12, in
> <module>
>
>     s = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.marcd.org')
>
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'SMTP'

Your file 'email.py' is hiding the std lib 'email' module and this is
creating a circular import and basically a mess :-)

Try calling your program something else.

Kent