Python CSV Has No Attribute 'Writer'

Question

There's a bit of code giving me trouble. It was working great in another script I had but I must have messed it up somehow.

The if csv: is primarily because I was relying on a -csv option in an argparser. But even if I were to run this with proper indents outside the if statement, it still returns the same error.

import csv  if csv:     with open('output.csv', 'wb') as csvfile:         csvout = csv.writer(csvfile, delimiter=',',             quotechar=',', quoting=csv.QUOTE_MINIMAL)         csvout.writerow(['A', 'B', 'C'])         csvfile.close() 

Gives me:

Traceback (most recent call last):   File "import csv.py", line 34, in <module>     csvout = csv.writer(csvfile, delimiter=',', AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'writer' 

If I remove the if statement, I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):   File "C:\import csv.py", line 34, in <module>     csvout = csv.writer(csvfile, delimiter=',', AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'writer' 

What silly thing am I doing wrong? I did try changing the file name to things like test.py as I saw that in another SO post, didn't work.

Answer 1

For me I had named my file csv.py. So when I import csv from that file I was essentially trying to import the same file itself.