unexpected wrote:
Hey guys,
I'm having problems importing a file into my python app. Everytime I
try to define the object specified by this file, i.e,
test = Test(),
It raises an ImportError exception: ImportError: cannot import name
Test.
I've declared it as:
from test import Test (and I've also tried from test import *)
As luck would have it, if I try creating a newfile (say test2) and then
declare the same class as:
from test2 import Test()
It works fine! I tried doing this with the first couple of files, but
then another error crops up for another file giving me this
ImportError...so I'd end up having to re-copy a bunch of files over
again.
I feel like there may be some sort of dependency screw up or
whatever..Is there a command that's like "Python, chill, let's start
from scratch and build this thing"?
Replace
from test import Test
with
import test
print test.__file__
raise SystemExit
The test file you are importing is probably not the one you expect. To fix
that make sure that the directory of /your/ test.py is in sys.path /before/
the directory of the test file you are accidentally importing. Even better,
rename it to something unambiguous as the name 'test' is already taken by
the test package of a vanilla Python installation. For example, I get
>>import test
test.__file__
'/usr/local/lib/python2.4/test/__init__.pyc'
The ImportError is actually an AttributeError in disguise:
>>import test
test.Test
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Test'
>>from test import Test
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ImportError: cannot import name Test
Peter
