Question

Recently, in attempting to import a module I’d written, I have been coming across errors that ostensibly should not happen. Here is the idea, I’m writing in my main.py file, and my hierarchy looks like this:

starsearch/
  main.py
  parser/
    __init__.py
    parse.py

the __ init __.py file in parser/ is empty, but when I try, in my program, to:

import parser

it returns an AttributeError. This happens when I call the function inside of parse.py, called getstar().
or

from parser import parse

it returns an ImportError.

So my Python doesn’t recognize that parse.py exists? I have done a bit of research, and having an __ init __.py file that’s empty should do the trick, but I’m stumped.

Answer 1

parser is a name of a build-in module in python.
when you write

import parser

You import the built-in module. Since that module does not contain the getstar() function or a parse module, you get either AttributeError or ImportError

Try changing the name of the “parser” directory to anything else and it should work. The empty init.py file is not needed