I have defined a class in a file named Object.py
. When I try to inherit from this class in another file, calling the constructor throws an exception:
TypeError: module.__init__() takes at most 2 arguments (3 given)
This is my code:
import Object
class Visitor(Object):
pass
instance = Visitor() # this line throws the exception
What am I doing wrong?
Your error is happening because Object
is a module, not a class. So your inheritance is screwy.
Change your import statement to:
from Object import ClassName
and your class definition to:
class Visitor(ClassName):
or
change your class definition to:
class Visitor(Object.ClassName):
etc
Even after @Mickey Perlstein's answer and his 3 hours of detective work, it still took me a few more minutes to apply this to my own mess. In case anyone else is like me and needs a little more help, here's what was going on in my situation.
Initial GeoJsonResponse class:
from pyexample.responses import Response
class GeoJsonResponse(Response):
def __init__(self, geo_json_data):
Looks fine. No problems until you try to debug the thing, which is when you get a bunch of seemingly vague error messages like this:
from pyexample.responses import GeoJsonResponse ..\pyexample\responses\GeoJsonResponse.py:12: in (module) class GeoJsonResponse(Response):
E TypeError: module() takes at most 2 arguments (3 given)
=================================== ERRORS ====================================
___________________ ERROR collecting tests/test_geojson.py ____________________
test_geojson.py:2: in (module) from pyexample.responses import GeoJsonResponse ..\pyexample\responses \GeoJsonResponse.py:12: in (module)
class GeoJsonResponse(Response): E TypeError: module() takes at most 2 arguments (3 given)
ERROR: not found: \PyExample\tests\test_geojson.py::TestGeoJson::test_api_response
C:\Python37\lib\site-packages\aenum__init__.py:163
(no name 'PyExample\ tests\test_geojson.py::TestGeoJson::test_api_response' in any of [])
The errors were doing their best to point me in the right direction, and @Mickey Perlstein's answer was dead on, it just took me a minute to put it all together in my own context:
I was importing the module:
from pyexample.responses import Response
when I should have been importing the class:
from pyexample.responses.Response import Response
Hope this helps someone. (In my defense, it's still pretty early.)
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