Circular Import Problem using Statistics module

Asked Apr 03 '20 at 16:08

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I'm trying to run a code to figure out some statistics using the statistics module. I got to this problem about circular imports. I don't know what it is and how I can fix it.

 #Statistics

import statistics

numbers = []
num_of_num = input('''How many numbers are in your list?
                    *Put a whole number, otherwise the command won't run the way you want it to*''')

for i in range(int(num_of_num)):
    if i == 0:
        number = input('What is your first number?')
    else:
        number = input('What is your next number?')

    numbers.append(float(number))

statistics.mean(numbers)
statistics.median(numbers)
statistics.multimode(numbers)
min(numbers)
max(numbers)
max(numbers) - min(numbers)
sum(numbers)

I got this error:

AttributeError: partially initialized module 'statistics' has no attribute 'mean' (most likely due to a circular import)

I'm pretty sure the Statistics module has the mean attribute, so I don't know how to fix it and what I did wrong.

asked Apr 03 '20 at 16:08

Lingyun Xie

What is your current file name? – Poojan Apr 03 '20 at 16:09
It's called statistics.py – Lingyun Xie Apr 03 '20 at 16:12
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Change it to something else. – Poojan Apr 03 '20 at 16:24
What's wrong with the name? – Lingyun Xie Apr 03 '20 at 18:13
It has the same name as the statistics module in the python standard library, so the import function tries to import your file instead of the file in the standard library. (This is known as "shadowing") – snakecharmerb Apr 04 '20 at 08:11
Thank you! It finally worked for me! – Lingyun Xie Apr 04 '20 at 20:08

Circular Import Problem using Statistics module

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