Importing Requests causes print() to print twice

Question

I'm running Python 3.6.3 on Windows 10 and installed Requests via pip.

#!python
import requests
print('Hello')

Results in "Hello" printing twice on PowerShell as well as Command Prompt. When I don't import requests, print works as expected.

Launching Python and importing from the prompt however causes no issue.

I had the same issue. Realized I had to rename my Python script file. — howdoicode, Oct 13 '20 at 15:25

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 14 '17 at 16:59

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What is happening is the requests library is importing a file named html. Since your file is also named html.py and is on the import path it is loaded twice.

Use the convention

if __name__ == '__main__':
    print("HI")

to avoid this.

See this question for more details: What does if __name__ == "__main__": do?

answered Nov 14 '17 at 16:59

Sam

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Thanks! As you can see I'm new to Python so i'm fumbling a bit. – Anthony Nov 14 '17 at 16:59
Happy to. You might have to rename your file anyway if the `requests` module claims something under `html` is missing. But that's another error for later on. Happy hacking. – Sam Nov 14 '17 at 17:01
never use "smart" & generic names like that. You may stumble on already existing module names. – Jean-François Fabre Nov 14 '17 at 17:18

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 14 '17 at 16:58

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There must be something in the requests library that hiccups on a filename named "html.py".

answered Nov 14 '17 at 16:58

Anthony

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Importing Requests causes print() to print twice

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