My structure looks something like this:
project/->
app.py
checker/->
exc.py
anc.py
My files are simple:
# app.py
from checker.exc import ExampleClass
# checker/exc.py:
from anc import AnotherClass
class ExampleClass(AnotherClass):
print('Example')
# checker/anc.py:
class AnotherClass:
print('AAAA')
When I run exc.py inside checker folder everything works ok, same when
I run app.py with module from package checker everything works perfect.
But when I run app.py which uses class from checker.exc, and exc need anc. I have an error ModuleNotFoundError: No module named anc
Realise this is a duct tape solution.
Change exc.py to:
try:
from anc import AnotherClass
print('abs import')
except ModuleNotFoundError:
from .anc import AnotherClass
print('rel import')
class ExampleClass(AnotherClass):
print('Example')
That way you can use absolute import when debugging, for instance, but rely on relative import when importing it running app.py on it's own.
The order in which you attempt to import them should reflect the expected use, with the one most expected to be used being attempted first. The error is the same if you switch the attempts.
Since the code is being run from the project folder, in order for exc.py to find anc.py you need to change exc.py to the following:
from .anc import AnotherClass
class ExampleClass(AnotherClass):
print('Example')
As berna1111's comment suggests, this may cause problems when running exc.py directly.
File "C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\Mibot\oops\blinkserv.py", line 82, in __init__
self.serv = socket(AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM)
TypeError: 'module' object is not callable
Why am I getting this error?
I'm confused.
How can I solve this error?
socket is a module, containing the class socket.
You need to do socket.socket(...) or from socket import socket:
>>> import socket
>>> socket
<module 'socket' from 'C:\Python27\lib\socket.pyc'>
>>> socket.socket
<class 'socket._socketobject'>
>>>
>>> from socket import socket
>>> socket
<class 'socket._socketobject'>
This is what the error message means:
It says module object is not callable, because your code is calling a module object. A module object is the type of thing you get when you import a module. What you were trying to do is to call a class object within the module object that happens to have the same name as the module that contains it.
Here is a way to logically break down this sort of error:
"module object is not callable. Python is telling me my code trying to call something that cannot be called. What is my code trying to call?"
"The code is trying to call on socket. That should be callable! Is the variable socket is what I think it is?`
I should print out what socket is and check print(socket)
Assume that the content of YourClass.py is:
class YourClass:
# ......
If you use:
from YourClassParentDir import YourClass # means YourClass.py
In this way, you will get TypeError: 'module' object is not callable if you then tried to call YourClass().
But, if you use:
from YourClassParentDir.YourClass import YourClass # means Class YourClass
or use YourClass.YourClass(), it works.
Add to the main __init__.py in YourClassParentDir, e.g.:
from .YourClass import YourClass
Then, you will have an instance of your class ready when you import it into another script:
from YourClassParentDir import YourClass
Short answer: You are calling a file/directory as a function instead of real function
Read on:
This kind of error happens when you import module thinking it as function and call it.
So in python module is a .py file. Packages(directories) can also be considered as modules.
Let's say I have a create.py file. In that file I have a function like this:
#inside create.py
def create():
pass
Now, in another code file if I do like this:
#inside main.py file
import create
create() #here create refers to create.py , so create.create() would work here
It gives this error as am calling the create.py file as a function.
so I gotta do this:
from create import create
create() #now it works.
Here is another gotcha, that took me awhile to see even after reading these posts. I was setting up a script to call my python bin scripts. I was getting the module not callable too.
My zig was that I was doing the following:
from mypackage.bin import myscript
...
myscript(...)
when my zag needed to do the following:
from mypackage.bin.myscript import myscript
...
myscript(...)
In summary, double check your package and module nesting.
What I am trying to do is have a scripts directory that does not have the *.py extension, and still have the 'bin' modules to be in mypackage/bin and these have my *.py extension. I am new to packaging, and trying to follow the standards as I am interpreting them. So, I have at the setup root:
setup.py
scripts/
script1
mypackage/
bin/
script1.py
subpackage1/
subpackage_etc/
If this is not compliant with standard, please let me know.
It seems like what you've done is imported the socket module as import socket. Therefore socket is the module. You either need to change that line to self.serv = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM), as well as every other use of the socket module, or change the import statement to from socket import socket.
Or you've got an import socket after your from socket import *:
>>> from socket import *
>>> serv = socket(AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM)
>>> import socket
>>> serv = socket(AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'module' object is not callable
I know this thread is a year old, but the real problem is in your working directory.
I believe that the working directory is C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\Mibot\oops\. Please check for the file named socket.py in this directory. Once you find it, rename or move it. When you import socket, socket.py from the current directory is used instead of the socket.py from Python's directory. Hope this helped. :)
Note: Never use the file names from Python's directory to save your program's file name; it will conflict with your program(s).
When configuring an console_scripts entrypoint in setup.py I found this issue existed when the endpoint was a module or package rather than a function within the module.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/ubuntu/.virtualenvs/virtualenv/bin/mycli", line 11, in <module>
load_entry_point('my-package', 'console_scripts', 'mycli')()
TypeError: 'module' object is not callable
For example
from setuptools import setup
setup (
# ...
entry_points = {
'console_scripts': [mycli=package.module.submodule]
},
# ...
)
Should have been
from setuptools import setup
setup (
# ...
entry_points = {
'console_scripts': [mycli=package.module.submodule:main]
},
# ...
)
So that it would refer to a callable function rather than the module itself. It seems to make no difference if the module has a if __name__ == '__main__': block. This will not make the module callable.
I faced the same problem. then I tried not using
from YourClass import YourClass
I just copied the whole code of YourClass.py and run it on the main code (or current code).it solved the error
you are using the name of a module instead of the name of the class
use
import socket
and then
socket.socket(...)
its a weird thing with the module, but you can also use something like
import socket as sock
and then use
sock.socket(...)
I guess you have overridden the builtin function/variable or something else "module" by setting the global variable "module". just print the module see whats in it.
Here's a possible extra edge case that I stumbled upon and was puzzled by for a while, hope it helps someone:
In some_module/a.py:
def a():
pass
In some_module/b.py:
from . import a
def b():
a()
In some_module/__init__.py:
from .b import b
from .a import a
main.py:
from some_module import b
b()
Then because when main.py loads b, it goes via __init__.py which tries to load b.py before a.py. This means when b.py tries to load a it gets the module rather than the function - meaning you'll get the error message module object is not callable
The solution here is to swap the order in some_module/__init__.py:
from .a import a
from .b import b
Or, if this would create a circular dependency, change your file names to not match the functions, and load directly from the files rather than relying on __init__.py
I got the same error below:
TypeError: 'module' object is not callable
When calling time() to print as shown below:
import time
print(time()) # Here
So, I called time.time() as shown below:
import time
print(time.time()) # Here
Or, I imported time from time as shown below:
from time import time # Here
print(time())
Then, the error was solved:
1671301094.5742612
I had this error when I was trying to use optuna (a library for hyperparameter tuning) with LightGBM. After an hour struggle I realized that I was importing class directly and that was creating an issue.
import lightgbm as lgb
def LGB_Objective(trial):
parameters = {
'objective_type': 'regression',
'max_depth': trial.suggest_int('max_depth', 10, 60),
'boosting': trial.suggest_categorical('boosting', ['gbdt', 'rf', 'dart']),
'data_sample_strategy': 'bagging',
'num_iterations': trial.suggest_int('num_iterations', 50, 250),
'learning_rate': trial.suggest_float('learning_rate', 0.01, 1.0),
'reg_alpha': trial.suggest_float('reg_alpha', 0.01, 1.0),
'reg_lambda': trial.suggest_float('reg_lambda', 0.01, 1.0)
}
'''.....LightGBM model....'''
model_lgb = lgb(**parameters)
model_lgb.fit(x_train, y_train)
y_pred = model_lgb.predict(x_test)
return mse(y_test, y_pred, squared=True)
study_lgb = optuna.create_study(direction='minimize', study_name='lgb_regression')
study_lgb.optimize(LGB_Objective, n_trials=200)
Here, the line model_lgb = lgb(**parameters) was trying to call the cLass itself.
When I digged into the __init__.py file in site_packages folder of LGB installation as below, I identified the module which was fit to me (I was working on regression problem). I therefore imported LGBMRegressor and replaced lgb in my code with LGBMRegressor and it started working.
You can check in your code if you are importing the entire class/directory (by mistake) or the target module within the class.
from lightgbm import LGBMRegressor
def LGB_Objective(trial):
parameters = {
'objective_type': 'regression',
'max_depth': trial.suggest_int('max_depth', 10, 60),
'boosting': trial.suggest_categorical('boosting', ['gbdt', 'rf', 'dart']),
'data_sample_strategy': 'bagging',
'num_iterations': trial.suggest_int('num_iterations', 50, 250),
'learning_rate': trial.suggest_float('learning_rate', 0.01, 1.0),
'reg_alpha': trial.suggest_float('reg_alpha', 0.01, 1.0),
'reg_lambda': trial.suggest_float('reg_lambda', 0.01, 1.0)
}
'''.....LightGBM model....'''
model_lgb = LGBMRegressor(**parameters) #here I've changed lgb to LGBMRegressor
model_lgb.fit(x_train, y_train)
y_pred = model_lgb.predict(x_test)
return mse(y_test, y_pred, squared=True)
study_lgb = optuna.create_study(direction='minimize', study_name='lgb_regression')
study_lgb.optimize(LGB_Objective, n_trials=200)
A simple way to solve this problem is export thePYTHONPATH variable enviroment. For example, for Python 2.6 in Debian/GNU Linux:
export PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/python2.6`
In other operating systems, you would first find the location of this module or the socket.py file.
check the import statements since a module is not callable.
In Python, everything (including functions, methods, modules, classes etc.) is an object.
I'm trying to use a variable as a module to import from in Python.
Using ImportLib I have been successfully able to find the test...
sys.path.insert(0, sys.path[0] + '\\tests')
tool_name = selected_tool.split(".")[0]
selected_module = importlib.import_module("script1")
print(selected_module)
... and by printing the select_module I can see that it succesfully finds the script:
<module 'script1' from 'C:\\Users\\.....">
However, when I try to use this variable in the code to import a module from it:
from selected_module import run
run(1337)
The program quits with the following error:
ImportError: No module named 'selected_module'
I have tried to add a init.py file to the main directory and the /test directory where the scripts are, but to no avail. I'm sure it's just something stupidly small I'm missing - does anyone know?
Import statements are not sensitive to variables! Their content are treated as literals
An example:
urllib = "foo"
from urllib import parse # loads "urllib.parse", not "foo.parse"
print(parse)
Note that from my_module import my_func will simply bind my_module.my_func to the local name my_func. If you have already imported the module via importlib.import_module, you can just do this yourself:
# ... your code here
run = selected_module.run # bind module function to local name
I downloaded a python project from github:
to work with interface file of ubuntu.
the problem is when I try to use the module as the Readme said I get this:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./ss.py", line 7, in <module>
adapters = debinterface.interfaces()
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'interfaces'
my ss.py script is:
#!/usr/bin/python
import debinterface
import sys
sys.path.append("/home/ed/Downloads/netpy/")
sys.path.append("/home/ed/Downloads/netpy/debinterface/")
adapters = debinterface.interfaces()
I run this script within "/home/ed/Downloads/netpy/" that consists of "debinterface". I have to say that I tried that script without "sys.path.append" but nothing changed, even I changed the module name "debinterface" to "debeh" but again nothing changed too.
what is my problem?
This looks like a bug in the documentation or the package code to me. You can use
from debinterface.interfaces import interfaces
and then refer to your the interface class with
adapters = interfaces()
or edit debinterface/__init__.py to do the import of interface module for you when you import the debinterface package. Add the line
from interfaces import interfaces
to the __init__.py file.
Well, I got it working doing the following:
Downloaded the zip from github;
Extracted the zip and renamed it to debinterfaces;
Created a python module in the same directory that debinterfaces folder is;
Changed the import statement:
from debinterface.interfaces import interfaces
And finally, called interfaces:
adapters = interfaces()
I have a module called spellnum. It can be used as a command-line utility (it has the if __name__ == '__main__': block) or it can be imported like a standard Python module.
The module defines a class named Speller which looks like this:
class Speller(object):
def __init__(self, lang="en"):
module = __import__("spelling_" + lang)
# use module's contents...
As you can see, the class constructor loads other modules at runtime. Those modules (spelling_en.py, spelling_es.py, etc.) are located in the same directory as the spellnum.py itself.
Besides spellnum.py, there are other files with utility functions and classes. I'd like to hide those files since I don't want to expose them to the user and since it's a bad idea to pollute the Python's lib directory with random files. The only way to achieve this that I know of is to create a package.
I've come up with this layout for the project (inspired by this great tutorial):
spellnum/ # project root
spellnum/ # package root
__init__.py
spellnum.py
spelling_en.py
spelling_es.py
squash.py
# ... some other private files
test/
test_spellnum.py
example.py
The file __init__.py contains a single line:
from spellnum import Speller
Given this new layout, the code for dynamic module loading had to be changed:
class Speller(object):
def __init__(self, lang="en"):
spelling_mod = "spelling_" + lang
package = __import__("spellnum", fromlist=[spelling_mod])
module = getattr(package, spelling_mod)
# use module as usual
So, with this project layout a can do the following:
Successfully import spellnum inside example.py and use it like a simple module:
# an excerpt from the example.py file
import spellnum
speller = spellnum.Speller(es)
# ...
import spellnum in the tests and run those tests from the project root like this:
$ PYTHONPATH="`pwd`:$PYTHONPATH" python test/test_spellnum.py
The problem
I cannot execute spellnum.py directly with the new layout. When I try to, it shows the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
File "spellnum/spellnum.py", line 23, in __init__
module = getattr(package, spelling_mod)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'spelling_en'
The question
What's the best way to organize all of the files required by my module to work so that users are able to use the module both from command line and from their Python code?
Thanks!
How about keeping spellnum.py?
spellnum.py
spelling/
__init__.py
en.py
es.py
Your problem is, that the package is called the same as the python-file you want to execute, thus importing
from spellnum import spellnum_en
will try to import from the file instead of the package. You could fiddle around with relative imports, but I don't know how to make them work with __import__, so I'd suggest the following:
def __init__(self, lang="en"):
mod = "spellnum_" + lang
module = None
if __name__ == '__main__':
module = __import__(mod)
else:
package = getattr(__import__("spellnum", fromlist=[mod]), mod)