tzwhere (pytzwhere) - Python 2.7 with simple test case

I'm running the simplest possible test problem that is given with the pytzwhere package. The module imports, but I'm getting an error. pytzwhere seems like a good offline option for getting timezones from GPS coordinates, but there isn't much documentation. Any help on how to reconcile this is appreciated!

In [94]:

import tzwhere

w = tzwhere()
print w.tzNameAt(1.352083, 103.819836)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-94-0b50c8083e93> in <module>()
      1 import tzwhere
      2 
----> 3 w = tzwhere()
      4 print w.tzNameAt(1.352083, 103.819836)

TypeError: 'module' object is not callable

Edit:

This has been resolved with the following code modification per the comments below -

In [108]:

from tzwhere import tzwhere

w = tzwhere.tzwhere()
print w.tzNameAt(1.352083, 103.819836)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Reading json input file: /Users/user/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tzwhere/tz_world_compact.json
Asia/Singapore

Solution

You cannot just instantiave w from module like w = tzwhere(). tzwhere is a module containing class tzwhere. As Python correctly noted, module is not callable.

from tzwhere import tzwhere w = tzwhere()

First line imports class tzwhere from module tzwhere.

Edit: If you do import "my way" :-) w = tzwhere() is valid creation of w as instance of class tzwhere.

Usually in Python, class would be named TzWhere, which would avoid such confusion.

I assume you are trying to use https://github.com/pegler/pytzwhere/blob/master/tzwhere/tzwhere.py