TypeError: 'module' object is not callable python class method

Question

I have the following class methods:

def queryCollection(self, query_string={}, distinct_output = "_id"):
    output_array = []
    for property in self.coll.find(query_string).distinct(distinct_output):
        output_array.append(property)
    return set(output_array)

def smallDateQuery(self):
    x = self.queryCollection( { "created_at": {"$gte" : datetime(2015, 3, 1), "$lt": datetime(2015, 3, 30)}} )
    return x

When I call the first one, it works:

x = user.queryCollection({ "created_at": {"$gte" : datetime(2015, 3, 1), "$lt": datetime(2015, 3, 30)}})
print len(x)

When I call the second, it does not:

y = user.smallDateQuery()
print len(y)
quit()

I get the following error:

 x = self.queryCollection( { "created_at": {"$gte" : datetime(2015, 3, 1), "$lt": datetime(2015, 3, 30)}} )
TypeError: 'module' object is not callable

What is the issue?

Answer 1

You probably have

import datetime

in which case you should use

datetime.datetime(2015, 3, 1)

The error arises because datetime is a module, the function to call is datetime.datetime .