Django external script ImportError: no module named Utils

Question

I searched google and this forum and I found this solution

sth=os.path.abspath('/home/artur/Desktop')
sys.path.append(sth)
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'project_name.settings'

Everything seems to be fine, even my editor supports import statement support. And when I try to import my models, I get this

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "email.py", line 12, in <module>
    from app_name.models import *
  File "app models models.py", line 1, in <module>
    from django.db import models
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Django-1.2.5-py2.6.egg/django/db/models/__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
    from django.db.models.query import Q
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Django-1.2.5-py2.6.egg/django/db/models/query.py", line 9, in <module>
    from django.db.models.fields import DateField
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Django-1.2.5-py2.6.egg/django/db/models/fields/__init__.py", line 14, in <module>
    from django import forms
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Django-1.2.5-py2.6.egg/django/forms/__init__.py", line 14, in <module>
    from widgets import *
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Django-1.2.5-py2.6.egg/django/forms/widgets.py", line 9, in <module>
    from django.utils.html import escape, conditional_escape
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Django-1.2.5-py2.6.egg/django/utils/html.py", line 9, in <module>
    from django.utils.http import urlquote
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Django-1.2.5-py2.6.egg/django/utils/http.py", line 4, in <module>
    from email.Utils import formatdate
ImportError: No module named Utils

I'm trying google about this but can't find anything to help solve this problem (found a similar way to add django settings file, but all failed with the same error). My OS is testing Debian and python 2.6.6. Thanks for any help or sugestions.

Answer 1

email.Utilsis a standard python library module. Do you have a module with a name emailthat contradicts it?

Go to the shell and type

import email
print email.__file__ # where is this "email" module? 
# make sure it not one of yours...