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

Question

I am trying to execute this following program to read csv file in sublime text2 gets error message "AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'writer'" Any Solution.

import sys
import csv
def readcsv():
  f = open("F://xyz.csv",'r')
  readerr=csv.reader(f)
  for row in readerr():
      print row
  f.close()
readcsv()

FULL ERROR MESSAGE

The current working directory is F:\\ Traceback (most recent call last): File "F:\\readfiles.py", line 12, in readcsv()
File "F:\\readfiles.py", line 7, in readcsv readerr=csv.reader(f) AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'reader' [Finished in 1.4s with exit code 1]

Answer 1

Debugging steps:-

Ideally csv should have reader module. My best guess is you have some other module named csv which is being imported. Can you try the following on python console:-'

>>>import csv
>>>dir(csv)

If you do not find the reader , writer etc. modules, chances are you are importing a wrong module with same name. Now try >>>csv.__file__ , Rename this file and follow previous step once again.

In general your code could look pythonic the following way:-

with open('csvfile.csv', 'rb') as csvfile:
     rows = csv.reader(csvfile)
     for row in rows:
         print row

Answer 2

The syntax is slightly off.

for row in readerr():

The parenthesis is function syntax. The command should only be acting on an object.

If you change that line to this, it will work for row in reader:

Answer 3

您必须将文件命名为 csv.py，重命名它可以解决错误。

Answer 4

I had this same error and the reason was my file name was also called 'csv.py' Try changing it to something else and try again. Should work !! :)