python redis error

[elastic10]

import redis
r = redis.StrictRedis(host='localhost', port=6379, db=0)

as instructed in the readme file, I get this error:

File "", line 1, in
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'StrictRedis'.
just begining redis, i have this error, do have please any idea?

[andymccurdy]

What version of redis-py are you using? My guess if you have a very old version. The current version is 2.10.x.

[elastic10]

i'm using the version redis-2.10.3 by doing "sudo pip install redis"

[andymccurdy]

That should most certainly work then. What's the output of the following?

import redis
dir(redis)

[elastic10]

it look the same thing;
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/bena/stream/redis.py", line 30, in
redis = redis.StrictRedis(host='localhost', port=6379, db=0)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'StrictRedis'

[andymccurdy]

I don't think you ran the dir command.

[elastic10]

how i can run it i just paste this in my script.py:
import redis
dir(redis)
redis = redis.StrictRedis(host='localhost', port=6379, db=0)

[andymccurdy]

import redis
print dir(redis)

Paste the output of the print statement.

[elastic10]

this is the result:
['AuthenticationError', 'BlockingConnectionPool', 'BusyLoadingError', 'Connection', 'ConnectionError', 'ConnectionPool', 'DataError', 'InvalidResponse', 'PubSubError', 'ReadOnlyError', 'Redis', 'RedisError', 'ResponseError', 'SSLConnection', 'StrictRedis', 'TimeoutError', 'UnixDomainSocketConnection', 'VERSION', 'WatchError', 'all', 'builtins', 'doc', 'file', 'name', 'package', 'path', 'version', '_compat', 'client', 'connection', 'exceptions', 'from_url', 'lock', 'utils']

[andymccurdy]

So StrictRedis is clearly there.

It looks like you're assigning to a variable named "redis". I would name your variable "r" or really anything other than the package name. That could be causing some problem.

[elastic10]

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/bena/stream/redis.py", line 30, in
r1 = redis.StrictRedis(host='localhost', port=6379, db=0)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'StrictRedis'

[andymccurdy]

I'm not sure what's going on then. The redis symbol clearly has StrictRedis from the results of the dir.

Are you able to import any of the other symbols from the list that dir returned?

[elastic10]

now i have this:

['builtins', 'doc', 'file', 'name', 'package', 'redis', 'tweepy']
['Listener', 'builtins', 'doc', 'file', 'name', 'package', 'redis', 'sys', 'tweepy']

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/bena/stream/redis.py", line 30, in
r1 = redis.StrictRedis(host='localhost', port=6379, db=0)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'StrictRedis'
i can import tweepy and i use it normal for getting tweet streaming

[Grokzen]

How about

from redis import StrictRedis
r1 = StrictRedis(host='localhost', port=6379, db=0)

[andymccurdy]

Ah, you have a file named redis.py somewhere. Python's import will import your redis.py module instead of a package named redis. You need to rename the redis.py file to something else.

[elastic10]

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/bena/stream/redis.py", line 5, in
from redis import StrictRedis
File "/home/bena/stream/redis.py", line 5, in
from redis import StrictRedis
ImportError: cannot import name StrictRedis