No attribute 'SMTP', error when trying to send email in Python

Question

I am trying to send an email in Python:

import smtplib   fromaddr = '......................'   toaddrs  = '......................'   msg = 'Spam email Test'    username = '.......'   password = '.......'  server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)   server.ehlo() server.starttls() server.login(username, password)   server.sendmail(fromaddr, toaddrs, msg)   server.quit() 

I understand that this is probably not the correct message format.

Anyways, I get an error:

C:\.....>python email.py Traceback (most recent call last):   File "email.py", line 1, in <module>     import smtplib   File "C:\.....\Python\lib\smtplib.py", line 47,  in <module>     import email.utils   File "C:\.....\email.py", line 15, in <module>     server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587) AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'SMTP' 

I don't quite understand what I am doing wrong here... Anything incorrect?

NOTE: All the periods are replacements for password/email/file paths/etc.

Answer 1

Python already has an email module. Your script's name is email.py, which is preventing smtplib from importing the built-in email module.

Rename your script to something other than email.py and the problem will go away.