'module' object is not callable in python using whois

Question

import whois 
whois.whois('google.com')

Error is :

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "C:\Scripts\Email_Header\whois.py", line 1, in <module>     
  import whois   
 File "C:\Scripts\Email_Header\whois.py", line 2, in <module>     
  whois.whois('google.com') 
TypeError: 'module' object is not callable

I installed using pip install python-whois

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 06 '16 at 14:17

4

You've named your script whois.py which is masking the whois module you just downloaded. Python will import the whois script you've just wrote, call it and fail.

Name your file differently, for example scrpt.py and it works fine:

python scrpt.py
{
  "domain_name": [
    "GOOGLE.COM",
    "google.com"
  ],
  "org": "Google Inc.",
  "whois_server": "whois.markmonitor.com",
  "state": "CA",

answered Oct 06 '16 at 14:17

Dimitris Fasarakis Hilliard

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Isn't there already a duplicate target for these problems? – OneCricketeer Oct 06 '16 at 14:23
@cricket_007 yes and I always *can't* find it because it has a weird name from what I remember. – Dimitris Fasarakis Hilliard Oct 06 '16 at 14:25
Socket Error: [Errno 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it None can u please tell me how to check port number on which it was running – Ayyappa Reddy Oct 06 '16 at 15:06

'module' object is not callable in python using whois

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