module object has no attribute 'Screen'

Question

I am teaching myself python from this site. On Chapter 3, when I typed the code in the given example, I got the following error--

Python 3.2 (r32:88445, Mar 25 2011, 19:28:28) 
[GCC 4.5.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import turtle
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "turtle.py", line 2, in <module>
    wn = turtle.Screen()
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Screen'
>>> 

Is this something that I need to download and install? I tried looking into docs.python.org, but my nose started to bleed reading all that tech stuff. Kindly point me in the right direction please? Thank you.

Answer 1

Another problem that people may encounter is due to an installation issue on Linux systems. On my Windows machine, 'turtle' was just there and I was able to import turtle with no problem. When I tried to import turtle in Ubuntu, it didn't find the module, so I tried to install it.

When I did sudo pip install turtle, it installed a package 'turtle' which apparently is very different: "Turtle is an HTTP proxy whose purpose is to throttle connections to specific hostnames ...." This 'turtle' most certainly does not have "Screen" or anything related to a little drawing turtle. So I ended up with the same error as the user in the question of module has no attribute 'Screen'.

For Ubuntu, what I needed to do was:

sudo pip uninstall turtle
sudo apt-get install python-tk

Then when I did import turtle, all of the expected modules were found.

Answer 2

Go to the directory where you save your python files. There is a file named turtle.py. Either remove it, or rename it. This will work. thanks,