Question

I have a very wierd problem.
When i run the file from a different directory it runs fine.
but other wise i get this error

 from textprocessor import *
File "/home/mohit/Documents/analysis/categorization/textprocessor.py", line 2, in <module>
  import nltk
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nltk/__init__.py", line 101, in <module>
 import ccg
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nltk/ccg/__init__.py", line 15, in <module>
   from chart import *
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nltk/ccg/chart.py", line 33, in <module>
from nltk.parse.api import *
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nltk/parse/__init__.py", line 46, in <module>
from featurechart import *
 File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nltk/parse/featurechart.py", line 24, in <module>
import nltk.data
 File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nltk/data.py", line 41, in <module>
import zipfile
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/zipfile.py", line 460, in <module>
class ZipExtFile(io.BufferedIOBase):
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'BufferedIOBase'

I am tryin to import nltk module

Answer 1

You’ve called a script in the same directory “io.py”, and this is interfering with the io module in the stdlib. Rename it.