Python - Import Failure

[ngms27]

Hi,

I'm trying to send a HTML email following this example: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/473810 and I'm getting a

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "email.py", line 4, in ?
from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
File "/home/ngms27/Desktop/email.py", line 4, in ?
from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
ImportError: No module named MIMEMultipart

The module is installed on my system under /usr/lib/python2.4/email/MIMEMultipart.py

Any ideas why the import is failing?

[prensing]

I suspect your problem is a name conflict between "email.py" in your Desktop directory and the standard email package. Python appears to be loading your "email.py". Then when it goes to look for MIMEMultipart, it can't find it inside "email" because "email" is your file, not the standard package.

Try renaming your file to something else like "myemail.py".

[po0f]

prensing,

I remember this one. ngms27 figured it out. It was a case of double posting and one post getting an answer and the other one getting left out in the cold, un-updated. :)