Re: Debian 12: errors when using Python3 venv?

[Kushal Kumaran <kushal@locationd.net>]

On Wed, Jun 14 2023 at 03:55:44 PM, Nicholas Papadonis <nick.papadonis.ml@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just cleanly installed Debian 11 and am trying to create a virtual
> environment for Python.
>
> I get the following error, does anyone know how to resolve this?  Am I
> missing some packages that need to be installed?
>
> 1843 [deb12:~]$ python3 -m venv pt
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<frozen runpy>", line 189, in _run_module_as_main
>   File "<frozen runpy>", line 148, in _get_module_details
>   File "<frozen runpy>", line 112, in _get_module_details
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.11/venv/__init__.py", line 7, in <module>
>     import logging
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.11/logging/__init__.py", line 43, in <module>
>     import threading
>   File "/home/vboxuser/threading.py", line 3, in <module>
>     sem = threading.Semaphore()
>           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> AttributeError: partially initialized module 'threading' has no attribute
> 'Semaphore' (most likely due to a circular import)

Your /home/vboxuser/threading.py is hiding the threading module from the
python standard library.

-- 
regards,
kushal