AttributeError: module 'os' has no attribute 'chroot'

Question

Below is my very basic code running in spyder & python is choking, what am I doing wrong?

import csv,os,sys
path = os.getcwd()
print (path)
os.chroot(path)

I get following error message:

  os.chroot(path)

AttributeError: module 'os' has no attribute 'chroot'

Answer 1

One possibility is that your operating system is Microsoft Windows, for which os.chroot() is not available.

Answer 2

Did you name your file os.py? If you did, it is shadowing the stdlib os module. Change the name of your file and delete os.pyc or __pycache__.

Do print os or similar inside the script to see the file path Python is using to get the os module.