Collection: weak error prompt drives beginner crazy

[Joel Goldstick]

On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 7:24 AM, animalize <animalize81 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> An example, the file-name is conflict with library-name in stdlib or
> installed library.
>
> There is a file uuid.py that only has two lines:
>
>     import uuid
>     print(uuid.uuid4())
>
> Run uuid.py, output on Python 3.5.1:
>
>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>       File "D:\uuid.py", line 1, in <module>
>         import uuid
>       File "D:\uuid.py", line 3, in <module>
>         print(uuid.uuid4())
>     AttributeError: module 'uuid' has no attribute 'uuid4'
>
> I was spending about an hour to find out what happend when I was a beginner,
> and I found I'm not the only one who confused by this problem.
>
> If the prompt can be beginner-friendly a little bit, I think it's a very
> good thing.
> E.g. says you are importing the file itself, rather than importing other
> file or library.

And how can python know that?
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