pylint not recognizing some of the standard library

Question

I\'m using pylint + pydev, with python 2.6. I have a module with just this line of code

from email import Message

Now when I try to run this mo

Answer 1

The email module uses some horrible import hackery, which has bitten me in the past. You can do this:

>>> from email import Message

but you can't do this:

>>> import email
>>> email.Message
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in ?
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Message'

I realise that's not very helpful for making pylint work, but it might help to explain the problem.