ImportError: No module named mime.multipart

Question

Good morning,

For testing purposes, I have made a one-line Python program:

from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart

When I run it

Answer 1

Module reorganization. The convention is for module names to be lower case, so some got renamed. In this case, the module you're looking for in Python 2.4.3 is email.MIMEMultipart.

Here's the docs from back then, in case the API has changed.

Answer 2

It should now be done like this:

from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart

Same goes for other commonly used modules like MIMEText and MIMEBase (use .text and .base respectively).

Answer 3

An easier way to debug the error is:

>>> import email
>>> dir(email)
['Charset', 'Encoders', 'Errors', 'FeedParser', 'Generator', 'Header', 'Iterator
s', 'LazyImporter', 'MIMEAudio', 'MIMEBase', 'MIMEImage', 'MIMEMessage', 'MIMEMu
ltipart', 'MIMENonMultipart', 'MIMEText', 'Message', 'Parser', 'Utils', '_LOWERN
AMES', '_MIMENAMES', '__all__', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__
', '__package__', '__path__', '__version__', '_name', 'base64MIME', 'email', 'im
porter', 'message_from_file', 'message_from_string', 'mime', 'quopriMIME', 'sys'
]
>>>

from the above you can note that MIMEMultipart is readily available to be imported from email.

Answer 4

Well, from the docs for Python 2.4, it seems you need:

from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart

(Although you might want to use a newer version of Python, if possible).

Answer 5

Call me dumb, but I was getting ImportError: No module named mime.text because my script was called email.py .... lol (blame on 4 am programming)