[Python-porting] Questions for porting unicode with backward compatibility

[Lennart Regebro]

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Chitrank Dixit
<chitrankdixit at gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay module six is made good but it lacks in some cases
>
> I am referring this documentation of six module
> http://pythonhosted.org/six/
>
> and getting problem in this line from six.moves import html_entities,
> html_parser
> I have installed six module in both python 2 and python 3.3 but I am getting
> problem in python 3.3 it says
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "html.py", line 34, in <module>
>     from six.moves import html_entities, html_parser
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/dist-packages/six.py", line 84, in __get__
>     result = self._resolve()
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/dist-packages/six.py", line 103, in
> _resolve
>     return _import_module(self.mod)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/dist-packages/six.py", line 74, in
> _import_module
>     __import__(name)
>   File
> "/home/chitrank/Documents/Google_Summer_of_code/moinmoin_pre/Emeraldtree/EmeraldTree/emeraldtree/html.py",
> line 34, in <module>
>     from six.moves import html_entities, html_parser
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/dist-packages/six.py", line 84, in __get__
>     result = self._resolve()
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/dist-packages/six.py", line 103, in
> _resolve
>     return _import_module(self.mod)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/dist-packages/six.py", line 74, in
> _import_module
>     __import__(name)
> ImportError: No module named 'html.entities'; html is not a package
>
> What could be the error please let me know

Can you do this:

    import html
    print(html.__file__)

It sounds like the html module somehow has been shadowed by something else.

//Lennart