ImportError: cannot import name array, when importing urllib2

Question

I am getting below error when trying to import the urllib2:

>>> import urllib2

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 94, in <module>
import httplib
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py", line 69, in <module>
from array import array

ImportError: cannot import name array`

Any thoughts on it?

Answer 1

It seems you have a python program named "array.py" in you present working directory. If yes rename that python program or move it to some other directory.