TypeError module object is not callable

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File  C  Users Administrator Documents Mibot oops blinkserv py   line 82  in   init       self serv   socket AF INET SOCK STREAM  TypeError   module  object is not callable   Why am I getting this error  I m confused   What do you need to know to answer my question

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check the import statements since a module is not callable  In Python  everything  including functions  methods  modules  classes etc   is an object

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I guess you have overridden the builtin function variable or something else  module  by setting the global variable  module   just print the module see whats in it

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Here is another gotcha  that took me awhile to see even after reading these posts  I was setting up a script to call my python bin scripts  I was getting the module not callable too   My zig was that I was doing the following   from mypackage bin import myscript     myscript        when my zag needed to do the following   from mypackage bin myscript import myscript     myscript        In summary  double check your package and module nesting    What I am trying to do is have a scripts directory that does not have the   py extension  and still have the  bin  modules to be in mypackage bin and these have my   py extension  I am new to packaging  and trying to follow the standards as I am interpreting them  So  I have at the setup root    setup py scripts        script1 mypackage     bin        script1 py    subpackage1     subpackage etc    If this is not compliant with standard  please let me know

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When configuring an console scripts entrypoint in setup py I found this issue existed when the endpoint was a module or package rather than a function within the module   Traceback  most recent call last      File   Users ubuntu  virtualenvs virtualenv bin mycli   line 11  in  lt module gt  load entry point  my-package    console scripts    mycli     TypeError   module  object is not callable   For example  from setuptools import setup setup             entry points              console scripts    mycli package module submodule                   Should have been  from setuptools import setup setup             entry points              console scripts    mycli package module submodule main                   So that it would refer to a callable function rather than the module itself  It seems to make no difference if the module has a if   name         main     block  This will not make the module callable

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A simple way to solve this problem is export thePYTHONPATH variable enviroment  For example  for Python 2 6 in Debian GNU Linux    export PYTHONPATH  usr lib python2 6    In other operating systems  you would first find the location of this module or the socket py file

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socket is a module  containing the class socket   You need to do socket socket      or from socket import socket    gt  gt  gt  import socket  gt  gt  gt  socket  lt module  socket  from  C  Python27 lib socket pyc  gt   gt  gt  gt  socket socket  lt class  socket  socketobject  gt   gt  gt  gt   gt  gt  gt  from socket import socket  gt  gt  gt  socket  lt class  socket  socketobject  gt    This is what the error message means  It says module object is not callable  because your code is calling a module object  A module object is the type of thing you get when you import a module  What you were trying to do is to call a class object within the module object that happens to have the same name as the module that contains it   Here is a way to logically break down this sort of error     module object is not callable  Python is telling me my code trying to call something that cannot be called  What is my code trying to call    The code is trying to call on socket  That should be callable  Is the variable socket is what I think it is   I should print out what socket is and check print socket

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I know this thread is a year old  but the real problem is in your working directory   I believe that the working directory is C  Users Administrator Documents Mibot oops   Please check for the file named socket py in this directory  Once you find it  rename or move it  When you import socket  socket py from the current directory is used instead of the socket py from Python s directory  Hope this helped      Note  Never use the file names from Python s directory to save your program s file name  it will conflict with your program s

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It seems like what you ve done is imported the socket module as import socket  Therefore socket is the module  You either need to change that line to self serv   socket socket socket AF INET  socket SOCK STREAM   as well as every other use of the socket module  or change the import statement to from socket import socket   Or you ve got an import socket after your from socket import      gt  gt  gt  from socket import    gt  gt  gt  serv   socket AF INET SOCK STREAM   gt  gt  gt  import socket  gt  gt  gt  serv   socket AF INET SOCK STREAM  Traceback  most recent call last     File   lt input gt    line 1  in  lt module gt  TypeError   module  object is not callable

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Add to the main   init   py in YourClassParentDir  e g    from  YourClass import YourClass   Then  you will have an instance of your class ready when you import it into another script   from YourClassParentDir import YourClass

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Assume that the content of YourClass py is   class YourClass                 If you use   from YourClassParentDir import YourClass    means YourClass py   In this way  I got TypeError   module  object is not callable if you then tried to use YourClass     But  if you use   from YourClassParentDir YourClass import YourClass     means Class YourClass   or use YourClass YourClass    it works for me

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Short answer  You are calling a file directory as a function instead of real function Read on  This kind of error happens when you import module thinking it as function and call it  So in python module is a  py file  Packages directories  can also be considered as modules  Let s say I have a create py file  In that file I have  a function like this   inside create py def create      pass  Now  in another code file if I do like this   inside main py file import create create    here create refers to create py   so create create   would work here  It gives this error as am calling the create py file as a function  so I gotta do this  from create import create create    now it works   Hope that helps  Happy Coding

[python] TypeError: 'module' object is not callable

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