Import error when sending simple email with python

Question

I am learning to send email in python and I am facing several problems. One of them is already in the import of the smtplib module. My code is this:

from smtplib import SMTP
smtp=SMTP('smtp.live.com',587)
smtp.starttls()
smtp.login('[email protected]','senha')
msg='ola mundo'
smtp.sendmail('[email protected]',['[email protected]'],msg)
smtp.quit()

This script generates the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Benedito\Desktop\email.py", line 1, in <module>
    from smtplib import SMTP
  File "C:\Users\Benedito\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35- 32\lib\smtplib.py", line 47, in <module>
    import email.utils
  File "C:\Users\Benedito\Desktop\email.py", line 1, in <module>
    from smtplib import SMTP
ImportError: cannot import name 'SMTP'

From what I understand, the error treats the smtplib module as if it did not have the SMTP method in it. However, when I run the direct import on the Python command line, this import error does not occur. Because it is giving error when running a script and is not giving error when running writing line by line in the python command line?

I am on Windows 8 and use Python 3.5.2

Answer 1

Change the name of your file from email.py for enviaremail.py (or anything), he seems to be conflicting with the import email.utils (used by lib SMTP)

And then try:

python enviaremail.py

It is always good to avoid these names so as not to conflict with native classes and namespaces