AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'HipChat'

[tgorup]

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong exactly. Possibly I'm doing my initial import/install wrong? Running the follow script:

import hipchat

hipster = hipchat.HipChat(token='APIKEY')   # For notification only

hipster.method('rooms/message', method='POST', parameters={'room_id': 'IDNUM', 'from': 'ThisBot', 'message': 'My Message', 'notify': '1', 'color': 'red'} )

I receive the following error:

$ python2.6 tt.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "tt.py", line 5, in <module>
    hipster = hipchat.HipChat(token='APITOKENT')    # For notification only
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'HipChat'

And

$ python tt.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "tt.py", line 5, in <module>
    hipster = hipchat.HipChat(token='APITOKENHERE') # For notification only
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'HipChat'

I'm running this on CentOS:

$ uname -r
2.6.32-431.5.1.el6.x86_64

Tried pip install:

$ pip install python-simple-hipchat
Downloading/unpacking python-simple-hipchat
  Downloading python-simple-hipchat-0.2.tar.gz
  Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip_build_root/python-simple-hipchat/setup.py) egg_info for package python-simple-hipchat
Installing collected packages: python-simple-hipchat
  Running setup.py install for python-simple-hipchat
Successfully installed python-simple-hipchat
Cleaning up...

Also tried installing from git:

$ python setup.py install
running install
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build/lib
creating build/lib/hipchat
copying hipchat/__init__.py -> build/lib/hipchat
running install_lib
copying build/lib/hipchat/__init__.py -> /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/hipchat
byte-compiling /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/hipchat/__init__.py to __init__.pyc
running install_egg_info
removing '/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/python_simple_hipchat-0.2-py2.6.egg-info' (and everything under it)
Writing /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/python_simple_hipchat-0.2-py2.6.egg-info

$ pip freeze
hipchat==0.0.1
httplib2==0.8
pycurl==7.19.0
pygpgme==0.1
python-simple-hipchat==0.2

Had my initial testing running perfectly on OSx. Please let me know if you need any other info.

[tgorup]

Was running python2.6, thought that may have been the issue. Did an altmake for Python2.7, forced pip to install to 2.7's site-packages, and I'm still getting the above error.

[kurttheviking]

@tgorup curious; i've not seen that error before. my first guess is that there's a permissions issue somewhere in the deployed environment -- especially since it seems to work on your local machine. can you try sudo pip install on the target machine (or is this restricted to a virtual env?).

[tgorup]

I tried the sudo pip install and it says it's already installed. Also tried using --ignore-installed. Still doesn't appear to be working. I think you might be right that it's a permissions issue. But I'm unfortunately not seeing where it could be. I attempted all of this as root. What's odd is it isn't breaking on the import, but rather on the execution.

$ sudo pip install python-simple-hipchat
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): python-simple-hipchat in /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages
Cleaning up...

$ sudo pip install --ignore-installed python-simple-hipchat
Downloading/unpacking python-simple-hipchat
  Downloading python-simple-hipchat-0.2.tar.gz
#!/usr/bin/python
  Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip_build_root/python-simple-hipchat/setup.py) egg_info for package python-simple-hipchat
Installing collected packages: python-simple-hipchat
  Running setup.py install for python-simple-hipchat
    Removing /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/python_simple_hipchat-0.2-py2.6.egg-info
Successfully installed python-simple-hipchat
Cleaning up...

$ ./t.py Testing
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./t.py", line 9, in <module>
    hipster = hipchat.HipChat(token='APITOKENHERE') # For notification only
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'HipChat'

t.py code:

#!/usr/bin/python

import hipchat
import sys
import ast

messageinput = sys.argv[1]  # Take message

hipster = hipchat.HipChat(token='APIKEYHERE')   # For notification only

# Post to Room
hipster.method('rooms/message', method='POST', parameters={'room_id': 'ROOMNUM', 'from': 'userBot', 'message': '%s' % (messageinput), 'notify': '0', 'color': 'green'} )

[jarv]

@tgorup it sounds like you might have a conflicting module with the same name. Do you have a python file in the same directory as t.py named hipchat.py?
Or try this:

import hipchat
print hipchat.__file__

to make sure you are loading the right thing.

[kurttheviking]

closing; this appears to be an environment-specific error