Python: Yet Another AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute

Question

I tried reading through some of the other questions but I still can't get it to work.

Basically I'm using a quick and dirty function called time_string() to return the date and time in a string formatted the way I want. If I run time_string directly, it works fine. If I call it from another function I get an AttributeError.

time_string

import time
def time_string(): #Never mind the unreadable formatting
    return str(time.localtime().tm_hour)+':'+str(time.localtime().tm_min)+':'+str(time.localtime().tm_sec)+\
           ' '+str(time.localtime().tm_year)+'/'+str(time.localtime().tm_mon)+'/'+str(time.localtime().tm_mday)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    print time_string()

Running time_string directly

13:46:13 2012/7/19

Other function

from misc.time_string import time_string
def main():
    print time_string()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Running other function

Traceback (most recent call last): File "#Filepath#", line 10, in main() File "#Filepath#", line 7, in main print time_string() File "#Filepath#", line 9, in time_string ' '+str(time.localtime().tm_year)+'/'+str(time.localtime().tm_mon)+'/'+str(time.localtime().tm_mday) AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'localtime'

I'm assuming its some issue with time not getting imported or something but it's boggling my mind

Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

The problem is that you have or at one time had a time.py file in the directory where you run the script, causing the wrong time module to be imported.

Even if you remove the time.py file, there still is a compiled time.pyc file that gets imported.