[Tutor] smtplib help required

[James Chapman]

Hi there gurus and everyone else. This is my first post to this group,
and I'm turning here because I'm stumped and search engines are not
helping.

I've used smtplib for a few things already and while wanting to use
it again today, I'm having weird things happen.

Basically, my code looks like this:

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#!/usr/bin/env python

import smtplib

pass

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and when I run it, I get this:
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srv1:~/python# ./email.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./email.py", line 3, in 
    import smtplib
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/smtplib.py", line 46, in 
    import email.utils
ImportError: No module named utils

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And I can also confirm that email.utils exists
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srv1:~/python# file /usr/local/lib/python2.6/email/utils.py
/usr/local/lib/python2.6/email/utils.py: ASCII Java program text
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So can anyone steer me in the right direction?
Oh, this first happened with the Debian distro release Python2.5, I
then downloaded and compiled 2.6.5 and it's still happening. I'm very
lost and would appreciate any help on the matter.

--
James

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