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AutomaticStatic
AutomaticStatic

Reputation: 1739

Python ImportError Cannot Import Name

In my working folder I have a file called exceptions.py, which contains only:

class ParseException(Exception):
    pass

class QueryException(Exception):
    pass

In the same folder I have a file, lets call it my_script.py

In my_script.py, when I do from exceptions import ParseException I get an error:

ImportError: cannot import name ParseException

I cannot figure out what's going on here. I've never seen this error before, and when I looked it up I mainly see problems with circular dependencies, but I don't have any here...

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3325

Answers (1)

ForceBru
ForceBru

Reputation: 44838

There is the exceptions module in your Python library which doesn't have the methods/classes you're trying to import. Change your file name to something different and it'll work.

Try the following yourself

>>> import exceptions 
# Works OK
>>> from exceptions import ParseException
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: cannot import name ParseException
>>> from exceptions import ImportError # Works OK too

Upvotes: 5

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