When I do from lxml import etree I've this error : AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'BytesIO'

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Mon Aug 25 11:59:56 EDT 2008


KLEIN Stéphane wrote:
> Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Apr 21 2008, 11:12:42) 
>>>> from lxml import etree
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "lxml.etree.pyx", line 40, in lxml.etree (src/lxml/
> lxml.etree.c:119415)
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'BytesIO'

Do you have a module called "io" lying around in your Python path somewhere?
lxml.etree checks for io.BytesIO (Py2.6/3.0) being available when it starts
up, and only failing that, falls back to StringIO.StringIO (Py <= 2.5).

Stefan



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