module 'gitlab' has no attribute 'Gitlab'

Question

I am trying to read the file from gitlab. I created access token in gitlab for this. Downloaded module python-gitlab

I installed module python-gitlab from PyCharm: File --> Settings--> Python interpreter --> python-gitlab

import gitlab
import json
from pprint import pprint
import requests
import urllib.request
# private token authentication
gl = gitlab.Gitlab('https://gitlab.com/..../CSV_HOMEWORK.csv', private_token='xxx')

gl.auth()

# list all projects
projects = gl.projects.list()
for project in projects:
    # print(project) # prints all the meta data for the project
    print("Project: ", project.name)
    print("Gitlab URL: ", project.http_url_to_repo)
    # print("Branches: ", project.repo_branches)
    pprint(project.repository_tree(all=True))
    f = urllib.request.urlopen(project.http_url_to_repo)
    myfile = f.read()
    print(myfile)
    print("\n\n")

after print(gitlab) I have

P.S. My file name from where I run my code isn't gitlab.py

Answer 1

You installed the package gitlab instead of python-gitlab.

Even if you installed python-gitlab already, the gitlab package will still conflict, so it must be uninstalled

pip uninstall gitlab
pip install python-gitlab

This is evidenced by the path identified in the error, pointing to a different package in site-packages. If you inspect the files in this path, you'll find it's not those expected to be contained in the python-gitlab package.

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Similar problems (not necessarily in this case) may be caused in a circumstance where you've named a module gitlab.py or named a package directory within your project gitlab/.

Answer 2

The issue can also happen when the file is gitlab.py. Renaming the file will solve the issue, when the package is not conflicting with gitlab.