AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'whois'

Question

I tried to execute this code:

import whois
w = whois.whois('webscraping.com')
print w

And I got the error above. Why?

Check if you are actually importing the package with `print whois.__file__`. That should return something pointing to your `site-packages`. Otherwise, you must be importing something in your current directory that's named `whois`. — Abdou, Dec 15 '16 at 14:30
well that's weird. `w = whois.query('webscraping.com')` should work if you've installed the package properly. I would recommend reinstalling it and trying again. — Abdou, Dec 15 '16 at 15:15
`print dir(whois)` to see all the methods and attributes from the module. You should be able to spot `query` and such in there. — Abdou, Dec 15 '16 at 15:44

score 12 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 21 '18 at 17:23

12

Wrong library, solution is to remove old one and install new :

pip uninstall whois 
pip install python-whois

edited Mar 21 '18 at 17:23

GAD3R

answered Jun 07 '17 at 14:36

Oleg S

Thank you , the problem come from the old `whois` package. – GAD3R Mar 21 '18 at 15:46

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 16 '16 at 12:02

2

Try this instead:

w = whois.query('webscraping.com')

edited Dec 16 '16 at 12:02

FelixSFD

answered Dec 15 '16 at 13:22

Erik Rydén

And actually, w will be some kind of object :) you can check the documentation: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/whois and for instance call print w.__dict__ :) – Erik Rydén Dec 15 '16 at 13:23
I got the error- 'module' object has no attribute 'query' – shira stenmetz Dec 15 '16 at 13:24
this worked for me (also with the new `python-whois`) – philshem Feb 28 '19 at 16:25

2 Answers2