Error: "Cannot find reference to loads in json.py"

Question

I am a newbie to python. I am learning the how python works with json. After writing this code in pycharm, I am getting unresolved references at several locations. "Import resolves to its containing file". "Cannot find reference to dumps in json.py " "Cannot find reference to loads in json.py "

I am getting this error while importing json, loads() and dumps() method are called. This is the video link from where I am learning to code python.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N6a-VLBa2I&list=PL-osiE80TeTt2d9bfVyTiXJA-UTHn6WwU&index=44

Please help me in resolving this.

 import json

# Decoding json string to python.

# This a python string that happens to be a valid json also.

people_string = '''
{
"people": [
{
"name": "Sumedha",
"phone":"0987654312"
"City": "Middletown"
},

{
"name": "Ankit",
"phone":"9999999999"
"City": "Middletown2"
},
{
"name": "Hemlata",
"phone":"9865656475"
"City": "Chandigarh"
}
]
}
'''

# loads method loads the string.
data = json.loads(people_string)

for person in data['people']:
    print(person['name'])
    del person['phone']

new_string = json.dumps(data, indent=2, sort_keys=True)

Answer 1

You named your test script json.py, so it's shadowing the built-in json module, preventing you from importing the built-in module, making import json try to import itself (that's what "Import resolves to its containing file" is trying to warn you about). Name your script something else (e.g. jsontest.py) and it will work.