Can't load smtplib

[S-boy]

Thanks. Turns out I had a script I wrote called email.py in my Python
path that was screwing things up.

On Feb 12, 2:50 pm, Jean-Paul Calderone <exar... at divmod.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:40:57 -0800 (PST), S-boy <sushibo... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >I can't seem to import smtplib in either a script or the command line
> >interpreter.
>
> >When I try to import smtp, there seems to be some kind of collision
> >with urllib2. I get a weird error about Web server authorization, even
> >though I'm not calling urllib2.
>
> >Any ideas on what might be causing this?
>
> >Here's the mess....
>
> >Python 2.5.4 (r254:67917, Dec 23 2008, 14:57:27)
> >[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5363)] on darwin
>
> >>>> import smtplib
>
> >Traceback (most recent call last):
> >  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> >  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/
> >python2.5/smtplib.py", line 46, in <module>
> >    import email.Utils
> >  File "email.py", line 4, in <module>
>
> Ooops.  Here's your problem.  Notice how that's not /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/>python2.5/email/?  You have an "email" module that's obscuring the stdlib
>
> email package.
>
>
>
> >    response = urlopen("https://webmail.canwest.com")
> >  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/
> >python2.5/urllib2.py", line 124, in urlopen
> >    return _opener.open(url, data)
> >  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/
> >python2.5/urllib2.py", line 387, in open
> >    response = meth(req, response)
> >  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/
> >python2.5/urllib2.py", line 498, in http_response
> >    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
> >  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/
> >python2.5/urllib2.py", line 425, in error
> >    return self._call_chain(*args)
> >  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/
> >python2.5/urllib2.py", line 360, in _call_chain
> >    result = func(*args)
> >  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/
> >python2.5/urllib2.py", line 506, in http_error_default
> >    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
> >urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized ( The server requires
> >authorization to fulfill the request. Access to the Web server is
> >denied. Contact the server administrator.  )
>
> Jean-Paul