Socket isn't working in Python

Question

I've been trying out the 'socket' module in Python but whenever I attempt to run this code :

import socket
import sys
host = '192.168.1.1'
port = 23
try:
 s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
except:
 print "socket() failed"
 sys.exit(1)

Then it dies. Here is the error without the except and try :

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "C:\Documents and Settings\a\Desktop\socket.py", line 1, in <module>
 import socket
 File "C:\Documents and Settings\a\Desktop\socket.py", line 6, in <module>
 s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'AF_INET'

I've just started Python(Today) and am in need of help.

I saved it as socket.py but also sock.py ...

• Red_Hat: Yes .. But it wont work as sock.py either.
• phihag: Make sure you delete socket.py. If that continues to fail, please update the stacktrace to the one you get with sock.py.

Answer 1

import socket

looks into the current directory before Python's standard library. And since your file is called socket.py, it is itself imported instead of the socket standard library module. Rename (don't copy, since that would leave the original file) the file to something else, such as my_socket.py.

• Darragh Enright: haha thanks. now I feel stupid. I'm a python newbie though so lesson learned :) +1