Getting "LazyImporter object is not callable" error when trying to send email using python smtplib

Question

Getting "LazyImporter' object is not callable" error when trying to send email with attachments using python smtplib from gmail. I have enabled allow less security app setting on in sender gmail

Code:

import smtplib
from email import MIMEBase
from email import MIMEText
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email import Encoders
import os

def send_email(to, subject, text, filenames):
    try:
        gmail_user = 'xx@gmail.com'
        gmail_pwd = 'xxxx'

        msg = MIMEMultipart()
        msg['From'] = gmail_user 
        msg['To'] = ", ".join(to)
        msg['Subject'] = subject

        msg.attach(MIMEText(text))

        for file in filenames:
            part = MIMEBase('application', 'octet-stream')
            part.set_payload(open(file, 'rb').read())
            Encoders.encode_base64(part)
            part.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment; filename="%s"'% os.path.basename(file))
            msg.attach(part)

        mailServer = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com:587") #465,587
        mailServer.ehlo()
        mailServer.starttls()
        mailServer.ehlo()
        mailServer.login(gmail_user, gmail_pwd)
        mailServer.sendmail(gmail_user, to, msg.as_string())
        mailServer.close()
        print('successfully sent the mail')

    except smtplib.SMTPException,error::

        print str(error)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    attachment_file = ['t1.txt','t2.csv']
    to = "xxxxxx@gmail.com" 
    TEXT = "Hello everyone"
    SUBJECT = "Testing sending using gmail"

    send_email(to, SUBJECT, TEXT, attachment_file)

Error : File "test_mail.py", line 64, in send_email(to, SUBJECT, TEXT, attachment_file) File "test_mail.py", line 24, in send_email msg.attach(MIMEText(text)) TypeError: 'LazyImporter' object is not callable

Answer 1

Like @How about nope said, with your import statement you are importing the MIMEText module and not the class. I can reproduce the error from your code. When I import from email.mime.text instead, the error disappear.