I recently ran into an issue on my development box. I can run my script line by line fine within the interactive shell, but it fails as soon as it tries to import a module when running the script from the command line.
Specifically, I’m trying to use: from flask import Flask
and the error I get is:
from flask import Flask
ImportError: cannot import name Flask
It was working perfectly fine a couple days ago and I didn’t make any changes to the system (that I can recall) so I can’t figure out if this is an issue with my python shell or flask.
Things I’ve checked/tried:
- deleting/reinstalling flask via pip
- confirming C:\Python27\lib\site-packages is in my system path
- clearing and re-adding the directories in my PATH environment variable
- uninstalling/reinstalling Python 2.7.3
-
successfully running the following script to test my python shell:
from time import gmtime, strftime print strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S +0000", gmtime())
I’m open to any new troubleshooting suggestions.
I had originally called the file flask.py and there was an old compiled flask.pyc in the same directory. It worked fine as soon as I moved it to another directory and also when removing the old flask.pyc.
Thanks for the quick comments timc and BrenBarn!