Program runs in all directories, except one..

Theo v. Werkhoven theo at van-werkhoven.nl.invalid
Sat Apr 28 15:06:32 EDT 2007


The carbonbased lifeform Carsten Haese inspired comp.lang.python with:
> On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 13:50 +0200, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
>> Goodday,
>> 
>> Something strange going on here.
>> A piece of code I wrote bombs out in one of de directories under $HOME,
>> but not in others.
>
> This usually means that the directory where your script doesn't work
> contains some .py file that has the same name as a standard library
> module that you need. Since the only import in your code snippet is
> "from array import array", and calling array() raises the exception that
> a list object is not callable, I am guessing that the culprit is a file
> named array.py that defines a list called array. Rename that file.

And you were right on the spot too, Cartsen, see my reply to John.
Thank you too.

Cheers,
Theo
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