Python & nmap

[MRAB]

On 2022-05-19 20:28, ^Bart wrote:
>> You forgot the second line (after 'import nmap' and before 'nm.scan()'):
>> 
>>      nm = nmap.PortScanner()
> 
> import nmap
> nm = nmap.PortScanner()
> nm.scan(hosts='192.168.205.0/24', arguments='-n -sP -PE -PA21,23,80,3389')
> hosts_list = [(x, nm[x]['status']['state']) for x in nm.all_hosts()]
> for host, status in hosts_list:
>        print('{0}:{1}'.host)
> 
> And the result is:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File "/home/gabriele/Documenti/Python/nmap.py", line 1, in <module>
>       import nmap
>     File "/home/gabriele/Documenti/Python/nmap.py", line 2, in <module>
>       nm = nmap.PortScanner()
> AttributeError: partially initialized module 'nmap' has no attribute
> 'PortScanner' (most likely due to a circular import)
>   >>>
> 
> I'm using the IDLE Shell 3.9.2 on Debian Bullseye+KDE, if I write the
> script from command line it works!
> 
When you installed nmap it would've been installed into site-packages, 
but the traceback says "/home/gabriele/Documenti/Python/nmap.py", which 
suggests to me that you called your script "nmap.py", so it's shadowing 
what you installed and is actually trying to import itself!