redis-py AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute

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I installed redis-py on CentOS and Ubuntu. On both I get the same error when trying to access it.

redis-py AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute

If I use the python prompt in the same directory as the source this will work:

>>> import redis
>>> r = redis.Redis(host='localhost', port=6379, db=0)

but if I change directories it will give the error.

>>> import redis
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "redis.py", line 4, in <module>
    print redis.__version__
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute '__version__'

Trying with a .py script always gives the error. Any idea what I'm doing wrong, and how to fix it. Probably a newbie Python thing...

Could you give us more information on how you installed redis-py — brice
– brice, Commented Mar 26, 2013 at 23:43

kindall · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-26 23:26:13Z

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You're naming a module you're working on redis.py and Python is importing that instead of the real redis module. Don't do that, or change sys.path to make sure the current working directory is last rather than first in the lists of directories to search.

answered Mar 26, 2013 at 23:26

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Sifb71 · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-08 13:59:43Z

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i have this error in tornado and it was because i install redis on python 2.7 and install in python3 too , i uninstall redis from python2.7 and re_install in python3 and solve the Problem!

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