Email in 2.6.4

[dirknbr]

I am trying to run

from email.mime.text import MIMEText

but I get an

ImportError: No module named mime.text

Since email was pre-installed how do I fix this?

Dirk

 

[Jean-Michel Pichavant]

I am trying to run

from email.mime.text import MIMEText

but I get an

ImportError: No module named mime.text

Since email was pre-installed how do I fix this?

Dirk

Did you make sure you didn't hide the standard email module by one of
your own.
Check
print email.__file__
/usr/lib/python2.5/email/__init__.pyc

If the path is correct, you may want to look in the code, or if anything
has changed in 2.6, I guess it is documented somewhere.

JM

 

[dirknbr]

I have now easy_installled email and I still get errors.

It doesn't error on 'import email' but does on call to MimeText.

import email
msg = MIMEText('test')

NameError: name 'MIMEText' is not defined

What should I do?

 

[Simon Brunning]

It doesn't error on 'import email' but does on call to MimeText.

import email
msg = MIMEText('test')

NameError: name 'MIMEText' is not defined

Here you want:

msg = email.MIMEText('test')

 

[Jean-Michel Pichavant]

I have now easy_installled email and I still get errors.

It doesn't error on 'import email' but does on call to MimeText.

import email
msg = MIMEText('test')

NameError: name 'MIMEText' is not defined

What should I do?

Using easy_install will not prevent the standard lib to be shadowed by
another (user) module.

did you print email.__file__ to verify the path ?
Can you show us the output ?

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

JM

 

[Mark Lawrence]

I have now easy_installled email and I still get errors.

I've done this as well, but don't see why I have to. Is this a
documentation bug, an installation bug or what?

It doesn't error on 'import email' but does on call to MimeText.

import email
msg = MIMEText('test')

NameError: name 'MIMEText' is not defined

What should I do?

Give the fully qualified name i.e. email.mime.text.MIMEText.

Regards.

Mark Lawrence.

 

[Jean-Michel Pichavant]

Sorry guys, I had named my file email.py and hence the error.



On 24 May 2010 15:22, Jean-Michel Pichavant <[email protected]

dirknbr wrote:

I have now easy_installled email and I still get errors.


It doesn't error on 'import email' but does on call to MimeText.

import email
msg = MIMEText('test')

NameError: name 'MIMEText' is not defined

What should I do?


Using easy_install will not prevent the standard lib to be
shadowed by another (user) module.

did you print email.__file__ to verify the path ?
Can you show us the output ?

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

JM

Classic error, you're not the first one, and my guess is that you won't
be the last.

JM