i was beggining to follow a tutorial on elementtree in this site <http://www.bigfatalien.com/?p=223> so as usual i typed the reference scripts on the interpreter and i went 

```
import xml.etree.ElementTree as xml

```

And the interpreter run that command just fine and using "xml" in the intrepreter with no problems my IDE even showed the members of that class on the autocomplete but as soon as i typed the exact same line on a script and tried to run it, it say 

> 
> object has no attribute 'etree'
> 
> 
> 

, this line works:

```
import xml

```

But if i add:

```
xml.etree.ElementTree = xml

```

And try to run that script that doesnt work, i tried with my IDE (pyscripter) and with IDLE, same behaviour.
Whats going on here, whats this behavior, i never read it mentioned on any of the "how to import in python" tutorials or books. I feel i'm missing something obvious.

Update with the error messages requested

Ran the provided lines from IDLE 2.6

```
2.6.6 (r266:84297, Aug 24 2010, 18:46:32) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)]
[u'C:\\Users\\grillermo\\Desktop', 'C:\\Program Files\\PyScripter\\Lib\\rpyc-python2x.zip', 'C:\\Python26\\lib\\site-packages\\dropbox_client-1.0-py2.6.egg', 'C:\\Python26\\lib\\site-packages\\simplejson-2.1.6-py2.6.egg', 'C:\\Python26\\lib\\site-packages\\poster-0.8.1-py2.6.egg', 'C:\\Python26\\lib\\site-packages\\oauth-1.0.1-py2.6.egg', 'C:\\Python26\\lib\\site-packages\\nose-1.0.0-py2.6.egg', 'C:\\Python26\\lib\\site-packages\\mechanize-0.2.5-py2.6.egg', 'C:\\Windows\\system32\\python26.zip', 'C:\\Python26\\DLLs', 'C:\\Python26\\lib', 'C:\\Python26\\lib\\plat-win', 'C:\\Python26\\lib\\lib-tk', 'C:\\Python26', 'C:\\Python26\\lib\\site-packages', 'C:\\Python26\\lib\\site-packages\\win32', 'C:\\Python26\\lib\\site-packages\\win32\\lib', 'C:\\Python26\\lib\\site-packages\\Pythonwin', 'C:\\Python26\\lib\\site-packages\\wx-2.8-msw-unicode']
2.6.6 (r266:84297, Aug 24 2010, 18:46:32) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)]
[u'C:\\Users\\grillermo\\Desktop', 'C:\\Program Files\\PyScripter\\Lib\\rpyc-python2x.zip', 'C:\\Python26\\lib\\site-packages\\dropbox_client-1.0-py2.6.egg', 'C:\\Python26\\lib\\site-packages\\simplejson-2.1.6-py2.6.egg', 'C:\\Python26\\lib\\site-packages\\poster-0.8.1-py2.6.egg', 'C:\\Python26\\lib\\site-packages\\oauth-1.0.1-py2.6.egg', 'C:\\Python26\\lib\\site-packages\\nose-1.0.0-py2.6.egg', 'C:\\Python26\\lib\\site-packages\\mechanize-0.2.5-py2.6.egg', 'C:\\Windows\\system32\\python26.zip', 'C:\\Python26\\DLLs', 'C:\\Python26\\lib', 'C:\\Python26\\lib\\plat-win', 'C:\\Python26\\lib\\lib-tk', 'C:\\Python26', 'C:\\Python26\\lib\\site-packages', 'C:\\Python26\\lib\\site-packages\\win32', 'C:\\Python26\\lib\\site-packages\\win32\\lib', 'C:\\Python26\\lib\\site-packages\\Pythonwin', 'C:\\Python26\\lib\\site-packages\\wx-2.8-msw-unicode']
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\grillermo\Desktop\xml.py", line 4, in <module>
    import xml.etree.ElementTree as et
  File "C:\Users\grillermo\Desktop\xml.py", line 4, in <module>
    import xml.etree.ElementTree as et
ImportError: No module named etree.ElementTree

```

The interpreter

```
C:\>python
Python 2.6.6 (r266:84297, Aug 24 2010, 18:46:32) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import xml.etree.ElementTree as et
>>> print et.__file__
C:\Python26\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.pyc
>>>

```