how to send email in python

Question

import smtplib

SERVER = "localhost"

FROM = "[email protected]"
TO = ["[email protected]"]

SUBJECT = "Hello!"

TEXT = "This message was sent with Python's smtplib."
server = smtplib.SMTP(SERVER)
server.sendmail(FROM, TO, message)
server.quit()

This is giving the error:

'**The debugged program raised the exception unhandled AttributeError
"'module' object has no attribute 'SMTP'"
File: /home/an/Desktop/email.py, Line: 13**'

Answer 1

Rename your file to something other than email.py. Also get rid of any email.pyc file left over. Problem solved.

Answer 2

This happens because email is a built-in library that comes standard with python. See: http://docs.python.org/library/email. If you rename your program to something else (as suggested above), that should do the trick.