Python: Idle: ImportError: cannot import name sleep
 

G'day Folks,


I am running 2.6.11-Kanotix-11 and am experiencing a pretty weird error (to me...) with Python and Idle.

When I start Idle from my home directory it starts without any problem, however when I try to start it from ~/python I get the following output:

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e-dua@EGLOBE:~/python$ idle
23:59:30
22:59:30
0
22:59:35
0
1
1
1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in ?
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/idlelib/run.py", line 7, in ?
import threading
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/threading.py", line 12, in ?
from time import time as _time, sleep as _sleep
ImportError: cannot import name sleep
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My python version 2.3.5. Idle version is 1.0.5.

Any ideas why this happens? What can I do to fix it?

All help appreciated.

Thanks,
Joe

Found the answer.

I had a file time.py in my ~/python directory. I renamed it to time0.py and everything works again.