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

[niranjanadhav]

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "read.py", line 6, in
reader = SimpleMFRC522()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mfrc522/SimpleMFRC522.py", line 14, in init
self.READER = MFRC522()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mfrc522/MFRC522.py", line 138, in init
gpioMode = GPIO.getmode()
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'getmode'