How to create custom module with existing python module name and import that system module in the custom module

Question

For example: shutil is default python module

I have created custom python file called shutil.py and below is the code in that shutil.py file

import shutil
shutil.move('test.py', 'test/test.py')

It returned below error instead of calling python shutil module which was imported in this shutil.py file

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

Please help me in this

Thanks

Possible duplicate of [Importing from builtin library when module with same name exists](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6031584/importing-from-builtin-library-when-module-with-same-name-exists) — zwer, Jul 12 '17 at 14:12

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 12 '17 at 14:05

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I suggest you to rename the import with as keyword

answered Jul 12 '17 at 14:05

Mikedev

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 12 '17 at 14:09

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You need to move your line down like so:

import shutil 
shutil.move('test.py', 'test/test.py')

answered Jul 12 '17 at 14:09

Jeffrey J

2 Answers2