'Module object has no attribute 'get' Python error Requests?

Question

I just installed the Requests module by using easy_install and I tried to run the demo code of this tutorial,

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'

Answer 1

This is the typical symptom of an unrelated requests.py (or requests.pyc) file sitting in your current directory, or somewhere else on the PYTHONPATH. If this is the case, remove or rename it, as it's shadowing the module you really want to import.