dropbox object does not have Dropbox attribute in Python

Question

I am now using Python to download files from Dropbox, and I following this tutorial. However, it did not succeed on the first two lines of codes:

import dropbox
dbx = dropbox.Dropbox('YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN')

My Python complains that AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Dropbox' Any ideas?

Ttry doing this: print(dropbox.__file__) after the import statement. That's two underscores on either side of file. It will tell you what file is being imported. Most likely, the file you're importing is not the actual dropbox module, but something else. — Bryan Oakley
– Bryan Oakley, Commented Sep 30, 2016 at 14:25
@BryanOakley Thanks, but it is not the case. The print output is: C:\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\dropbox-2.2.0-py2.7.egg\dropbox_init_.pyc — feelfree
– feelfree, Commented Sep 30, 2016 at 14:35
This weird as it is a common case, in case we have a .py in the dir with same name as of the module we import i.e. wrong module get imported - check the site-packages dir if you have more than dropbox folders there — Nabeel Ahmed
– Nabeel Ahmed, Commented Sep 30, 2016 at 14:59

feelfree · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-30 15:39:49Z

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After careful examination, I found the reason is because I am using functions from dropbox-v2 while in my machine dropbox-v1 was installed.

answered Sep 30, 2016 at 15:39

feelfree

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