[Tutor] Issue with Python module downloads from Library for a beginner Python coder.

[Mats Wichmann]

On 8/2/20 3:38 AM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> Diverting replies to tutor at python.org, a better place for all this.
> 
> It looks like the error is in graphics.py, not in your file.
> Your line:
> 
>     from graphics import *
> 
> is syntacticly correct. Something has mangled the line breaks in your 
> traceback, which here appears as:
> 
>     When I write a different line -  (from import graphics *), this is the output:
>     from graphics import *Traceback (most recent call last):  File 
>     "<pyshell#3>", line 1, in <module>    from graphics import *  File 
>     "C:\Users\sarvesh\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\graphics.py", 
>     line 1    Python 3.8.5 (tags/v3.8.5:580fbb0, Jul 20 2020, 15:43:08) 
>     [MSC v.1926 32 bit (Intel)] on win32           ^SyntaxError: invalid 
>     syntax
> 
> To me it appears that the syntax error in in graphics.py at line 1. I'd 
> normally expect such a traceback to look more like this:
> 
>     File "<pyshell#3>", line 1, in <module>
>         from graphics import *
>     File "C:\Users\sarvesh\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\graphics.py", line 1
>          Python 3.8.5 (tags/v3.8.5:580fbb0, Jul 20 2020, 15:43:08) [MSC v.1926 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
>          ^SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> 
> In particular, the "^" would point to the place in the code where Python 
> _noticed_ the syntax error. Is it possible that graphics.py contains 
> that "Python 3.8.5 ...." text?
> 
> So the traceback I've invented above says that _your_ import failed, but 
> that was because of a failure in the file you were trying to import.
> 
> BTW, it looks to me like your Python programmes (graphics.py and 
> whatever other file you might be making) are inside the Python install.  
> Normally you'd keep these elsewhere, for example in a folder such as:
> 
>     C:\Users\sarvesh\my-programmes
> 
> Cheers,
> Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>
> 
> On 02Aug2020 06:36, Sarvesh Poddar <sarvesh.poddar at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I am currently using Python 3.8.5 with IDLE environment that comes 
>> pre-installed with the Python application. I am using the book "An 
>> Introduction to computer science" by John Zelle as my reference.
>> The problem I am facing is "There is a python program named "graphics.py" that is used as reference in the book and I downloaded the python file from internet (link to the file - https://mcsp.wartburg.edu/zelle/python/graphics.py). I have kept this module in (C:\Users\sarvesh\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32) and this is were my Python files also lie in C drive. The problem is that I am not able to import graphics.py file and when I try to do that following is the error I receive,
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in <module>    import graphics
>>   File "C:\Users\sarvesh\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\graphics.py", line 1
>>     Python 3.8.5 (tags/v3.8.5:580fbb0, Jul 20 2020, 15:43:08) [MSC v.1926 32 bit (Intel)] on win32           ^SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>  I have installed, uninstalled and then re-installed Python 3.8.5 multiple times but the problem remains. I did a thorough internet search and most of them suggested using sys path and following is the result,


It looks very much like the file your are importing is a literal save of
an interactive session, not an actual Python source file, since from the
error message, it seems to begin with the regular stanza that appears on
Windows for when you start Python (or an IDLE shell, for that matter).


>>
>> import sys>>> sys.path['', 'C:\\Users\\sarvesh\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python38-32\\Lib\\idlelib', 'C:\\Users\\sarvesh\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python38-32\\python38.zip', 'C:\\Users\\sarvesh\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python38-32\\DLLs', 'C:\\Users\\sarvesh\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python38-32\\lib', 'C:\\Users\\sarvesh\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python38-32', 'C:\\Users\\sarvesh\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python38-32\\lib\\site-packages']
>> When I write a different line -  (from import graphics *), this is the output:
>>from graphics import *Traceback (most recent call last):  File 
>> "<pyshell#3>", line 1, in <module>    from graphics import *  File 
>> "C:\Users\sarvesh\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\graphics.py", 
>> line 1    Python 3.8.5 (tags/v3.8.5:580fbb0, Jul 20 2020, 15:43:08) 
>> [MSC v.1926 32 bit (Intel)] on win32           ^SyntaxError: invalid 
>> syntax