Import error when I try use "requests" module

Question

I have a problem, when try to use requests lib

import requests

r = requests.get('http://www.python.org/')
print(r)

After that, I got the following error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/admin/Documents/alex/test.py", line 3, in <module>
    import requests
  File "C:\Program Files\python3\lib\site-packages\requests\__init__.py", line 53, in <module>
    from .packages.urllib3.contrib import pyopenssl
  File "C:\Program Files\python3\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\__init__.py", line 27, in <module>
    from . import urllib3
  File "C:\Program Files\python3\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
    from .connectionpool import (
  File "C:\Program Files\python3\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 35, in <module>
    from .connection import (
  File "C:\Program Files\python3\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\connection.py", line 44, in <module>
    from .util.ssl_ import (
  File "C:\Program Files\python3\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\util\__init__.py", line 20, in <module>
    from .retry import Retry
  File "C:\Program Files\python3\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\util\retry.py", line 15, in <module>
    log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
AttributeError: module 'logging' has no attribute 'getLogger'

I do not understand why is it at all. Please, help me.

Just out of curiosity (and to help fix the issue) - how is the file you are running the code in is called? — Dmitry Torba, Aug 23 '16 at 20:32
Yes, your have a logging.py somehwere in your path that is not the builtin — Padraic Cunningham, Aug 23 '16 at 20:43

Dmitry Torba · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-23T20:48:28.133

Your problem is one of the following

Your installation of Python is terribly broken
When C:\Program Files\python3\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\util\retry.py tries to import logging it imports wrong file. This may happen because
- There is file called logging.py in the directory you are running your test.py from. In this case, you will need to rename it so that logging from Python library is imported, not yours.
- There is file called logging.py in one of directories from Python Path and it gets found before the logging.py the module actually needs

To check what logging gets imported, write the following simple program

import logging
import os.path

print os.path.abspath(logging.__file__)

Whatever is printed is path to your logging file. If it is not along the line of ...\Python\\Python36\\lib\\logging\\__init__.py, the wrong file is imported and you got to replace/rename it

Thanks. Yes...logging.py file in the directory I run test.py... I rename it and all right. — Alex Lian, Aug 23 '16 at 20:47

Import error when I try use "requests" module

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