ddtl wrote:
> Hello everybody.
>
> My script uses re.compile() function, and while it rans without errors
> under Linux, when I ran that script under Windows I get the following
> error:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "C:\a\projects\re.py", line 4, in ?
> import re
> File "C:\a\projects\re.py", line 95, in ?
> main()
> File "C:\a\projects\re.py", line 37, in main
> s_exp = re.compile(op['-s'])
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'compile'
>
> What is the problem here? re module is installed and is on the path -
> for example, the following code works and doesn't cause any errors:
>
> import re
> re.compile('a')
>
> What else could cause such an error?
Change the name of your script file from re.py to
not_the_name_of_a_module.py -- you are importing your script, not the
re module. This is shown in the traceback: import re executes the
main() function in your script.
Worked on Linux? Maybe the script wasn't called re.py on Linux.
Alternatively:
(1) In Windows at least, the current directory is placed first on the
Python module search path. I would have expected the same to happen on
*x.
(2) Did you run it using an IDE on Linux? An IDE may fiddle with
sys.path.
Bottom line: however you ran it on Linux: insert
import sys
print "sys.path is", sys.path
at the top of your script and see what it produces. Note: '' (empty
string) means current directory.
Also it's a good idea to make scripts guard against inappropriate code
being executed when the script is imported (whether deliberately or
accidentally). The standard idiom is something like this:
if __name__ == "__main__": # being run as script, not imported
def main():
do_something()
HTH,
John
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