Python Kivy Attribute Error

Question

I installed Kivy from ppa:kivy-team/kivy but got AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'instancemethod'

I reinstalled it but still the same error appears. I have tried ppa:kivy-team/kivy-daily and from the official ubuntu repositories but the error occurs in all. My code is the Hello World application from here. My filename is kivyhw.py (if that's what's going wrong.) Python v2.7

Here is the entire message from the one from the official repos:

[INFO   ] Kivy v1.7.2
Purge log fired. Analysing...
Purge finished !
[INFO   ] [Logger      ] Record log in /home/aditya/.kivy/logs/kivy_15-06-03_19.txt
[INFO   ] [Factory     ] 144 symbols loaded
[DEBUG  ] [Cache       ] register <kv.lang> with limit=None, timeout=Nones
[DEBUG  ] [Cache       ] register <kv.image> with limit=None, timeout=60s
[DEBUG  ] [Cache       ] register <kv.atlas> with limit=None, timeout=Nones
[INFO   ] [Image       ] Providers: img_tex, img_dds, img_pygame, img_pil, img_gif 
[DEBUG  ] [Cache       ] register <kv.texture> with limit=1000, timeout=60s
[DEBUG  ] [Cache       ] register <kv.shader> with limit=1000, timeout=3600s
[INFO   ] [Text        ] Provider: pygame
[DEBUG  ] [App         ] Loading kv <Documents/Python/my.kv>
[DEBUG  ] [App         ] kv <Documents/Python/my.kv> not found
[DEBUG  ] [Window      ] Ignored <egl_rpi> (import error)
[INFO   ] [Window      ] Provider: pygame(['window_egl_rpi'] ignored)
libudev: udev_device_new_from_syspath: device 0x973d8d0 has devpath '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card0'
libudev: udev_device_new_from_syspath: device 0x973dd10 has devpath '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0'
libudev: udev_device_read_db: device 0x973dd10 filled with db file data
[WARNING] [WinPygame   ] Video: failed (multisamples=2)
[WARNING] [WinPygame   ] trying without antialiasing
[DEBUG  ] [Window      ] Display driver x11
[DEBUG  ] [Window      ] Actual window size: 800x600
[DEBUG  ] [Window      ] Actual color bits r8 g8 b8 a8
[DEBUG  ] [Window      ] Actual depth bits: 24
[DEBUG  ] [Window      ] Actual stencil bits: 8
[DEBUG  ] [Window      ] Actual multisampling samples: 0
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL version <1.4 Mesa 10.1.3>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL vendor <Intel Open Source Technology Center>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL renderer <Mesa DRI Intel(R) 945GM x86/MMX/SSE2>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL parsed version: 1, 4
[CRITICAL] [GL          ] Minimum required OpenGL version (2.0) NOT found!

OpenGL version detected: 1.4

Version: 1.4 Mesa 10.1.3
Vendor: Intel Open Source Technology Center
Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 945GM x86/MMX/SSE2

Try upgrading your graphics drivers and/or your graphics hardware in case of problems.

The application will leave now.
[INFO   ] [GL          ] Shading version <1.20>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] Texture max size <2048>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] Texture max units <8>
[DEBUG  ] [Shader      ] Fragment compiled successfully
[DEBUG  ] [Shader      ] Vertex compiled successfully
[DEBUG  ] [ImagePygame ] Load </usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/kivy/data/glsl/default.png>
[INFO   ] [Window      ] virtual keyboard not allowed, single mode, not docked
[INFO   ] [OSC         ] using <multiprocessing> for socket
[DEBUG  ] [Base        ] Create provider from mouse
[DEBUG  ] [Base        ] Create provider from probesysfs
[DEBUG  ] [ProbeSysfs  ] using probsysfs!
[INFO   ] [Base        ] Start application main loop
[INFO   ] [Base        ] Leaving application in progress...
[INFO   ] [Base        ] Leaving application in progress...
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "Documents/Python/kivyhw.py", line 15, in <module>
     MyApp().run()
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/kivy/app.py", line 600, in run
     runTouchApp()
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/kivy/base.py", line 456, in runTouchApp
     stopTouchApp()
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/kivy/base.py", line 466, in stopTouchApp
     EventLoop.close()
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/kivy/base.py", line 160, in close
     self.stop()
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/kivy/base.py", line 172, in stop
     provider.stop()
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/kivy/input/providers/mouse.py", line 125, in stop
     on_mouse_up=self.on_mouse_release)
   File "_event.pyx", line 261, in kivy._event.EventDispatcher.unbind (kivy/_event.c:3793)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/kivy/weakmethod.py", line 48, in __call__
     return new.instancemethod(self._func, self._obj(), self._class)
 AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'instancemethod'

Answer 1

The problem was that your file new.py was imported instead of the one internal to python. It's a rare but annoying bug!