Kivy, ImportError: cannot import name App

Question

everything was working fine on my ubuntu machine and suddenly i can't import App from kivy.app

from kivy.app import App  

Answer 1

One of Kivy's internal module weakmethod.py is trying to import another internal module new.py . But you have create a new.py next to where you run python, so Python will try to load yours first. This breaks everything because weakmethod doesn't expect that your new.py , it wants the internal new.py !. The solution is to rename this offending file.

(The actual problem causing ImportError is circular import on the kivy.app module)

Answer 2

For me, the import error "cannot import name app" was syntax. I replaced app with App and that solved my problem. I was able to re-create, and resolve the issue, by changing the case from lower to upper and vise versa.

Answer 3

Follow this procedure:

1. Go to kivy website

2. Go to -> download -> Windows 7, 8, 10 (32/64 bit) Install using pip, follow the instructions here -> installation for Windows

3. Copy and pasted in CMD-> python -m pip install kivy_examples --> (The examples are installed in the share directory under the root directory where python is installed)

4. For example C:\\Python34\\share\\kivy-examples\\animation

5. Save all your files in this folder.