Comments on: Python ImportError: cannot import name X

By: John Villar

John Villar — Mon, 30 May 2011 14:31:31 +0000

Can’t believe this was the error i was having. One million thanks to you pal!!!

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 04:51:21 +0000

I had this same issue using mod_python trying to import psycopg2. I had to move the

import psycopg2

under

def handler(req):
import psycopg2
…

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 02:25:35 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!

By: AJ

AJ — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:21:30 +0000

You are putting the imports in your constructor? That seems a little weird (and extremely against the standards lol). Alternatively you could separate the parent code, and re-order the imports.

For instance:
/parent1.py/ <–first import parent2, then children
/parent2.py/ <– part of parent code needed by children
/children/childa.py
/children/childb.py <– imports parent2
/children/__init__.py <– same as before

By: ysa

ysa — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:24:01 +0000

thanks so much for solving my problem.

***would take “years” to find it.heheheeh…
saved me a lot of searching [2]!

By: digitalpbk

digitalpbk — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:14:19 +0000

Thanks a lot, saved me a lot of searching

By: pointer

pointer — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:37:38 +0000

thanks a lot for the post. it does make sense to me.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:38:42 +0000

Thx for the info – it also solved my problem – but i had to reread your post quite often to understand it.

The problem is a **circular Reference** – as child gets imported in parent, which also wants to import parts of parent.

By: luislope

luislope — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:25:54 +0000

ok ok ok I got, niceeeee. thanks.

By: luislope

luislope — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:24:53 +0000

and what happen if you hace a bouch of classes on:

/ab/ab_classes.py

and now make a package like this:

/a/a_classes.py
/b/b_classes.py

???