Re: AttributeError: module 'socket' has no attribute 'timeout'

[Alexandros Afentoulis <alexaf@bloom.re>]

On 4/25/19 10:04 AM, Artem Golubev wrote:
> Hello,  I’m using python3.5, python3.7 on Debian 9 stretch
> This is my code:

[snip]

> When I execute my code I receive this error
>
> ***************
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/root/python/projects/test/socket.py", line 7, in <module>
>      sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
> AttributeError: module 'socket' has no attribute 'AF_INET'

Hi,

the problem is you've named your file 'socket', and that precedes the 
python module 'socket' when importing. Try renaming it.

Since your question is not specific to debian python packaging though, 
it would be probably better to ask elsewhere, e.g. 
https://stackoverflow.com/

Cheers