New to Python, GMail SMTP error

Question

I am writing a simple sendmail function to myself and I keep getting this error:

NameError: name \'SMTPException\' is not defined

What is wrong with my code? Any

Answer 1

In Python, you will need to fully qualify the name by prefixing it with its module:

except smtplib.SMTPException:

This is true unless you specifically import the unqualified name (but I wouldn't recommend doing this for your program, just showing what's possible):

from smtplib import SMTPException