[Tutor] what's wrong in my command?

[Alan Gauld]

"Shurui Liu (Aaron Liu)" <shurui91 at gmail.com> wrote


OK, can you tell me import.py is empty or not? If it's not an empty
document, what's its content?

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Dave Angel <davea at ieee.org> wrote:
>> # Pickle
>> import pickle
> This is where you told it to load import.py. Normally, that just quietly
> loads the standard module included with your system.

Dave meant to say pickle.py

There is no import.py.

>> When I run it, the system gave me the feedback below:
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "geek_translator3.py", line 4, in <module>
>> import pickle
>> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/pickle.py", line 13, in <module>
>>
>> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'dump'

Did you by any chance create or edit a file called pickle.py in
the location indicated? It could be that you need to
reinstall to get the original pickle.py back.

>> I don't understand, I don't write anything about pickle.py, why it
>> mentioned?

You wrote about it when you did the import. Thats why it's mentioned.

>> what's wrong with "import pickle"? I read many examples online whose
>> has "import pickle", they all run very well.

What happens if you start a new Python interpreter session and type:

>>> import pickle

Does it work?

> Most common cause for something like this would be that pickle imports 
> some
> module, and you have a module by that name in your current directory (or
> elsewhere on the sys.path). So pickle gets an error after importing it,
> trying to use a global attribute that's not there.
>
> Wild guess - do you have a file called marshal.py in your own code?

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