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S.aad
S.aad

Reputation: 538

Python - Conflict Between My Package Name And Installed Package Name

I am trying to call jwt.encode function of PyJWT but it's probably conflicting with my package jwt and thus giving the error AttributeError("module 'jwt' has no attribute 'encode'")

My application structure is as below

jwt
 |-- __init__.py
 |-- db.py
instance
 |-- jwt.sqlite
tests
 |-- __init__.py
 |-- conftest.py
 |-- test_encodetoken.py

I get the error when I run

(venv) ~$ pytest

I put an empty __init__.py in tests folder because otherwise it cannot find my jwt package.

Below is the function calling jwt.encode which is inside db.py

import jwt
def encode_auth_token(user_id,app):
    """
    Generates the Auth Token
    :return: string
    """
    try:
        payload = {
            'exp': datetime.datetime.utcnow() + datetime.timedelta(days=0, seconds=5),
            'iat': datetime.datetime.utcnow(),
            'sub': user_id
        }
        return jwt.encode(
            payload,
            app.config.get('SECRET_KEY'),
            algorithm='HS256'
        )
    except Exception as e:
        return e

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1395

Answers (1)

JBirdVegas
JBirdVegas

Reputation: 11403

Fix: Rename the directory jwt

Why: Since your code is before the library's code in the PYTHONPATH you code is seen and not the jwt from PyJWT

Example:

dbutils
 |-- __init__.py
 |-- db.py
instance
 |-- jwt.sqlite
tests
 |-- __init__.py
 |-- conftest.py
 |-- test_encodetoken.py

Upvotes: 1

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