Email in 2.6.4

[Jean-Michel Pichavant]

Dirk Nachbar wrote:
> Sorry guys, I had named my file email.py and hence the error.
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> On 24 May 2010 15:22, Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmichel at sequans.com 
> <mailto:jeanmichel at sequans.com>> wrote:
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>     dirknbr wrote:
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>         I have now easy_installled email and I still get errors.
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>         It doesn't error on 'import email' but does on call to MimeText.
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>         import email
>         msg = MIMEText('test')
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>         NameError: name 'MIMEText' is not defined
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>         What should I do?
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>     Using easy_install will not prevent the standard lib to be
>     shadowed by another (user) module.
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>     did you print email.__file__ to verify the path ?
>     Can you show us the output ?
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>     To give you an example, on a lenny python 2.5 distrib, the
>     MIMEText class is in
>     /usr/lib/python2.5/email/mime/text.py
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>     JM
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Classic error, you're not the first one, and my guess is that you won't 
be the last.

JM