ImportError: cannot import name SMTP_SSL

Question

I am trying to send emails from the python script following this thread Sending mail from Python using SMTP

But I am getting an error while doing this:

from smtplib import SMTP_SSL as SMTP

Error: ImportError: cannot import name SMTP_SSL

I am using python2.7.10 and I downloaded it from https://www.python.org/downloads/

Can anybody guess what can be the reason for the error. Please note that the name of script is not email.py

Is your script called email.py or do you have a file with that name in your directory? — Daniel Hepper, Aug 17 '15 at 17:26
May not be very helpful, but the python code from the Sending Mail link works (gets past the import) on python 2.7.8 32-bit on Windows x64. — DisappointedByUnaccountableMod, Aug 17 '15 at 17:35

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 17 '15 at 18:19

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The problem has been solved as I created a file email.py previously but after finding related issues I created another file with different name

But I found that even the presence of email.py in the directory causes problem. After deleting the email.py the script is not causing any issue in running

answered Aug 17 '15 at 18:19

user2793078

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I got the same problem and I fixed it just by changing the name from email.py to a different one. – Daniel González Cortés Jun 17 '18 at 21:19

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 11 '20 at 05:46

NEVER EVER CREATE YOUR FILENAME WITH 'email.py' that's gonna cause a lot of issues. I was facing the same issue and as I rename the file the problem got sorted out. The issue could be with the same name as python could have an inbuild email module. I was trying to import the below modules

from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 17 '15 at 17:32

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I suspect that while you may have downloaded and installed Python 2.7.10, you're actually running a version of python earlier than 2.6 when you execute python from the command line.

Can you execute:

python -V

And post the results?

answered Aug 17 '15 at 17:32

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ImportError: cannot import name SMTP_SSL

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