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What is a circular import? asked by a newbie of newbies - ineuw - Sep-16-2022
Using Linux Mint Cinnamon 21.0, I want to parse my bookmarks.html file with a script from https://pypi.org/project/bookmarks-parser/.
#! /usr/bin/python3
import pprint
import bookmarks_parser
bookmarks = bookmarks_parser.parse("bookmarks.html")
pprint.pprint(bookmarks)Pasted the script into the Python terminal, line by line, with the following results.ineuw@lmc210dt:~/Desktop$ python3
Python 3.10.4 (main, Jun 29 2022, 12:14:53) [GCC 11.2.0] on linux
>>> import pprint
>>> import bookmarks_parser
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/home/ineuw/Desktop/bookmarks_parser.py", line 6, in <module>
bookmarks = bookmarks_parser.parse("bookmarks.html")
AttributeError: partially initialized module 'bookmarks_parser' has no attribute 'parse' (most likely due to a circular import)
>>>
RE: What is a circular import? asked by a newbie of newbies - Gribouillis - Sep-16-2022
It is likely that you have a file named bookmarks_parser.py . Try this command to see where Python imports bookmarks_parser from
Output:python3 -c "import bookmarks_parser; print(bookmarks_parser)"Quote:File "/home/ineuw/Desktop/bookmarks_parser.py", line 6, in <module>Rename the file to something else. It is not the module that Python must import.