'Module object has no attribute 'get'

Question

i just installed the Requests module by using 'easy_insatll' and i tried to run the demo code of this tutrorial,

import requests
payload = {'username': 'xxxx', 'password': 'xxxxx'}
r = requests.get('https://github.com/timeline.json')

but i get this error: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'get'

any idea? thanks

Answer 1

I had the same error.

All I did was save it as requests.py

Then I saved it as some other name. And problem solved.

Answer 2

As already stated, the most common problem is that you have a requests.py file somewhere in your PYTHONPATH.

But as the requests module internally uses other modules (e.g. from the standard python library), there might be problems with other filenames as well. For example I had the same problem when I named a script http.py. In that case the output of print dir(requests) is correct which makes tracking down the error a bit more difficult...

Answer 3

I made a mistake of the test file's name was requests.py. So, when i import requests.py, it's not what I want to import. Then, I renamed the test file's name. It works!!!

Answer 4

This could be an user error if you're working with a framework like Django that has request objects as well.

I constantly get confused by Django's:

request.POST

and request's:

request.post

That was my problem, anyway. Bracing for down votes.

Answer 5

You have to variants of how to fix this.

import requests

or

r = get('https://github.com/timeline.json')

P.S. First one is preferable

Answer 6

I happened the same issue on Mac and Ubuntu. I want to test the requests command. I used the requests/ folder name and the requests.py filename on Mac. But Python shows the "ImportError: cannot import name get" message. Therefore, I have renamed the requests/ folder and the requests.py file to test-requests/ and test-requests.py. It still got the message. I checked the folder as below:

__pycache__     requests.pyc        test-1.py       test-requests.py

I saw that the folder has the requests.pyc file. So I deleted the requests.pyc file in the folder. Then, I executed the below test script. it's working now.

$ python test-requests.py 
200

#! /usr/bin/env python
# the content of test-requests.py
import requests
from requests import get
r = requests.get('http://httpbin.org/get')
print (r.status_code)