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

@kennytm python file with a single line code `from kivy.app import App` — red5pider, Mar 11 '17 at 20:57

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:31

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)

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 27 '18 at 19:27

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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.

answered Jun 27 '18 at 19:27

Ric413

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 21 '17 at 18:27

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Follow this procedure:

Go to kivy website
Go to -> download -> Windows 7, 8, 10 (32/64 bit) Install using pip, follow the instructions here -> installation for Windows
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)
For example C:\Python34\share\kivy-examples\animation
Save all your files in this folder.

edited Jun 21 '17 at 18:27

gre_gor

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answered Jun 21 '17 at 14:50

chili17

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I feel like you could format this answer in a better way, and explain what you are doing on each step. – GrumpyCrouton Jun 21 '17 at 15:14

Kivy, ImportError: cannot import name App

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