Weird AttributeError With Imports

Juha S.

I'm getting a "AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'clock'"
when importing a module from within two packages related to the line:
"self.lastTime = time.clock()" in the __init__() of the class Time in
the target module.

The module (mytime.py) sits in a package hierarchy such as the following
"packageA.packageB.mytime", and imports the Python module "time" like
this: "import time"

In another module outside of both packages (in a folder that holds the
other package folders) I do this:
from packageA.packageB import mytime

timer = mytime.Time() #Throws the above AttributeError
Strangely it seems that if I create a Time object in mytime.py
everything works perfectly. I have no idea why I'm getting this error,
so any help is welcome!

Oct 28 '07 #1

Peter Otten

Juha S. wrote:

I'm getting a "AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'clock'"
when importing a module from within two packages related to the line:
"self.lastTime = time.clock()" in the __init__() of the class Time in
the target module.

You probably have a time module that you wrote yourself and which is now
hiding the one in python's standard library. Was your mytime.py formerly
named time.py, and if so, did you remove the corresponding time.pyc?

Peter

Oct 28 '07 #2

Juha S.

Peter Otten wrote:

Juha S. wrote:

>I'm getting a "AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'clock'"
when importing a module from within two packages related to the line:
"self.lastTime = time.clock()" in the __init__() of the class Time in
the target module.

You probably have a time module that you wrote yourself and which is now
hiding the one in python's standard library. Was your mytime.py formerly
named time.py, and if so, did you remove the corresponding time.pyc?

Peter

Yes, I did have mytime.py named as time.py previously. Now that I
deleted the .pyc it seems to work fine. Thanks!

Oct 28 '07 #3

Gabriel Genellina

En Sun, 28 Oct 2007 14:50:24 -0300, Juha S. <ju*****@gmail.comescribi�:

Peter Otten wrote:

>You probably have a time module that you wrote yourself and which is now
hiding the one in python's standard library. Was your mytime.py formerly
named time.py, and if so, did you remove the corresponding time.pyc?

Yes, I did have mytime.py named as time.py previously. Now that I
deleted the .pyc it seems to work fine. Thanks!

Wow! Most standard crystall balls would tell just about the time.py
problem. Yours is certainly a very sophisticated one! It was even capable
of detecting a rename and a forgotten .pyc file - that's far beyond the
usual range! Congratulations!

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Gabriel Genellina

Oct 29 '07 #4