Trying to import module with the same name as a built-in module causes an import error

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You will want to read about Absolute and Relative Imports which addresses this very problem. Use:

from __future__ import absolute_import

Using that, any unadorned package name will always refer to the top level package. You will then need to use relative imports (from .email import ...) to access your own package.

NOTE: The above from ... line needs to be put into any 2.x Python .py files above the import ... lines you’re using. In Python 3.x this is the default behavior and so is no longer needed.

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