Question

I just installed the Requests module by using easy_install
and I tried to run the demo code of this tutorial,

import requests
payload = {'username': 'xxxx', 'password': 'xxxxx'}
r = requests.get('https://github.com/timeline.json')

but I get this error:

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'get'

Answer 1

You are importing all names from the requests module into your local namespace, which means you do not need to prefix them anymore with the module name:

>>> from requests import *
>>> get
<function get at 0x107820b18>

If you were to import the module with an import requests statement instead, you added the module itself to your namespace and you do have to use the full name:

>>> import requests
>>> requests.get
<function get at 0x102e46b18>

Note that the above examples is what I got from my tests in the interpreter. If you get different results, you are importing the wrong module; check if you have an extra requests.py file in your python package:

>>> import requests
>>> print requests.__file__
/private/tmp/requeststest/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/__init__.pyc

You can also test for the name listing provided by the requests module:

>>> print dir(requests)
['ConnectionError', 'HTTPError', 'Request', 'RequestException', 'Response', 'Session', 'Timeout', 'TooManyRedirects', 'URLRequired', '__author__', '__build__', '__builtins__', '__copyright__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__license__', '__name__', '__package__', '__path__', '__title__', '__version__', '_oauth', 'api', 'auth', 'certs', 'codes', 'compat', 'cookies', 'defaults', 'delete', 'exceptions', 'get', 'head', 'hooks', 'models', 'options', 'packages', 'patch', 'post', 'put', 'request', 'safe_mode', 'session', 'sessions', 'status_codes', 'structures', 'utils']