init.py is not recognized in module [SOLVED]

byMR

November 28, 2022

EDIT:

I’m an idiot ant the file is called __init__.py and not __init.py__

Thx for the fast replies.

I am trying to understand python packages, to eventually generate my own packages.

I read some tutorial and try to code some examples, but I am not stuck with some understanding of the init.py file.

I try to follow this tutorial,
https://timothybramlett.com/How_to_create_a_Python_Package_with___init__py.html

but I get the following error at example3.py

AttributeError: module 'string_func' has no attribute 'stringLength'

This is the tree of files:

.
├── example2.py
├── example3.py
└── string_func
    ├── __init.py__
    ├── stringLength.py
    ├── stringToLower.py
    └── stringToUpper.py

and here the init file

$ cat string_func/__init.py__
from .stringLength import stringLength
from .stringToLower import stringToLower
from .stringToUpper import stringToUpper

and the two shortened examples:
example2:

import string_func.stringLength
some_string = "Hello, Universe!"
print(string_func.stringLength.stringLength(some_string))

Returns 16 as expected.

And example3:

import string_func
some_string = "Hello, Universe!"
print(string_func.stringLength(some_string))

I am using

python3 --version
Python 3.9.9

But got the same error on a python 3.6.x

It feels like the init file is ignored, but I cannot understand why.

I also try to find threads, which already described the issue, but I failed. So if you have any good ressources to better understand module making, I’ll be happy 🙂

Best
christian