Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib import problem

[Jouni K. S. <jk...@ik...>]

"ai...@gm..." <ai...@gm...> writes:

> I have strange problem while I am importing matplotlib.

>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xml/sax/saxutils.py", line 6, in <module>
>     import os, urlparse, urllib, types
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib.py", line 26, in <module>
>     import socket
>   File "socket.py", line 7, in <module>
>     except socket.error:
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'error'

Note how Python prints the full path of saxutils.py and urllib.py but a
bare filename for socket.py. You probably have a file named socket.py in
your current working directory that is inadvertently getting imported by
urllib.py.

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