Load Modules in Wing IDE

Question

I am new to Python and am having trouble loading numpy in Wing IDE. I can load the module and use it fine in the command line but not in Wing IDE. Below is what I am seeing:

code:

import numpy as np

a=np.arange(15)

result:

[evaluate numpy.py] Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\\Users[my name]\\Documents\\Python\\practice\\numpy.py", line 2, in 0 builtins.NameError: name 'arange' is not defined

I have also tried to use the help() command:

code:

help(np)

result:

Help on module numpy:

NAME numpy

FILE c:\\users[my name]\\documents\\python\\practice\\numpy.py

Answer 1

It is probably due to your code being in a file named numpy.py If you do this then 'import numpy' may import your module and not numpy. This depends on what's on the Python Path and possibly current directory, which probably explains why it works outside of Wing.