AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'letters'

[John Machin]

On Feb 12, 9:24 am, black_13 <jjosb... at gmail.com> wrote:
> what does this error mean?
> i am trying to use mark hammonds win32 package.
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "aui2.py", line 11, in <module>
>     import win32com.client
>   File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py",
> line 12, in <module>
>     import dynamic, gencache, pythoncom
>   File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py",
> line 24, in <module>
>     import build
>   File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\build.py", line
> 507, in <module>
>     valid_identifier_chars = string.letters + string.digits + "_"
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'letters'
>
>

If you have a file called string.py in the same directory as your
script, move/rename/delete it.
Otherwise run python from the command line with the -v option and find
where it's getting the interloper string module from.