On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:58:55 -0500, Victor Subervi wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Kev Dwyer <kevin.p.dw...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:28:37 -0400, Victor Subervi wrote: >> >> Hello Victor, >> >> There are some pages on the internet that suggest that this problem my >> be caused by a module named email.py (or email.pyc) in your pythonpath. >> If you try import smtplib in the interpreter do you get this error >> message? If so, start a new interpreter session and try import email - >> is the email module imported from the stdlib? >> >> > Both of these import just fine. > > >> If these steps don't help, it might be useful if you can tell us which >> Linux distribution you are using. >> >> > Python 2.4.3 > [r...@13gems ~]# uname -a > Linux 13gems.com.13gems.com 2.6.18-028stab064.8 #1 SMP Fri Nov 6 > 11:28:25 MSK 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux CentOS 5.4 final > TIA, > V > <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Kev Dwyer > <span dir="ltr"><<a > href="mailto:kevin.p.dw...@gmail.com">kevin.p.dw...@gmail.com</a>></ span> > wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 > .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 > 11:28:37 -0400, Victor Subervi wrote:<br> <br> > Hello Victor,<br> > <br> > There are some pages on the internet that suggest that this problem my > be<br> caused by a module named email.py (or email.pyc) in your > pythonpath. If<br> you try import smtplib in the interpreter do you get > this error message?<br> If so, start a new interpreter session and try > import email - is the<br> email module imported from the > stdlib?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Both of these import just > fine. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 > .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <br> > If these steps don't help, it might be useful if you can tell us > which<br> Linux distribution you are > using.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Python > 2.4.3</div><div><div>[r...@13gems ~]# uname -a</div><div>Linux <a > href="http://13gems.com.13gems.com">13gems.com.13gems.com</a> > 2.6.18-028stab064.8 #1 SMP Fri Nov 6 11:28:25 MSK 2009 x86_64 x86_64 > x86_64 GNU/Linux</div> <div>CentOS 5.4 > final</div><div>TIA,</div><div>V</div></div></div>
Hello Victor, I ran your script on a CentOS vm (5.2 server 32bit, not quite the same as yours but also running python 2.4.3). It ran without error. So I suspect that either you have a rogue email module/package on your machine or there's something wrong with the python install. You could try: import email email.__version__ My interpreter responds "3.0.1" If you get a different response that suggests a dodgy module somewhere - try email.__file__ and see where it's located (my interpreter returns /usr/lib/python2.4/email/__init__.pyc). If the version number is "3.0.1" on your machine then I would check the contents of /usr/lib64/python2.4/email/. Perhaps the base64MIME module is missing. Cheers, Kev -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list