re.compile() doesn't work under Windows?

[jay graves]

ddtl wrote:
> My script uses re.compile() function, and while it rans without errors
> under Linux, when I ran that script under Windows I get the following
> error:

> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:\a\projects\re.py", line 4, in ?
>     import re
>   File "C:\a\projects\re.py", line 95, in ?
>     main()
>   File "C:\a\projects\re.py", line 37, in main
>     s_exp = re.compile(op['-s'])
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'compile'


> What is the problem here? re module is installed and is on the path -
> for example, the following code works and doesn't cause any errors:

The traceback has the answer.  It seems your file is named 're.py' so
it is trying to import itself rather the the 're' python module.

I don't know why it ran OK on Linux.  Maybe your script is named
differently on Linux or the sys.path order is different between Windows
and Linux.

HTH.
...
jay