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Al Christopher
Al Christopher

Reputation: 23

Module attribute import

I'm not sure why I can't import the db_password variable.

Running db_setup gives:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "db_setup.py", line 5, in <module>
    passwd=dbconfig.db_password)
TypeError: 'module' object is not callable

I'm missing something but i'm not sure what.

I can open up an interperter and import dbconfig as well as call `dbconfig.db_password'

db_setup.py

import pymysql
import dbconfig

connection = pymysql.connections(host='localhost', user=dbconfig.db_user, passwd=dbconfig.db_password)

dbconfig.py

db_user='username'
db_password='password'

I expect the module to pass the variable 'password'

Upvotes: 2

Views: 181

Answers (1)

Corentin Limier
Corentin Limier

Reputation: 5006

There is no problem with the import of db_password variable, the error is elsewhere :

import pymysql
import dbconfig

connection = pymysql.connect(host='localhost', user=dbconfig.db_user, password=dbconfig.db_password)

pymysql.connections is a module, not a function, and contains the Connection class that is instanciate and returned by pymysql.connect()

Connection class doc :

The proper way to get an instance of this class is to call connect().

Upvotes: 1

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