httplib does not work in script

Question

On loading httplib in terminal returns no error, but when I load the library in a script, I got this error:

File "test2.py", line 1, in <module>
import httplib
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 74, in <module>
from urlparse import urlsplit
File "/home/nakisa/Desktop/testURL/urlparse.py", line 2, in <module>
from tld import get_tld
File "/home/nakisa/Desktop/testURL/src/tld/src/tld/__init__.py",  
line    9, in <module>
from tld.utils import get_tld, get_tld_names, update_tld_names, Result
File "/home/nakisa/Desktop/testURL/src/tld/src/tld/utils.py", line 
 13, in <module>
from six.moves.urllib.parse import urlparse
ImportError: cannot import name urlparse

Does anybody have any suggestion?

Answer 1

You have a file

/home/nakisa/Desktop/testURL/urlparse.py

which is shadowing the built-in Python library urlparse that is required by httplib.

Rename your file.

Edit:

This is what is happening on your machine.

$ cat so.py
import httplib
$ cat urlparse.py
# this is empty
$ python2.7 so.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "so.py", line 1, in <module>
    import httplib
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 74, in <module>
    from urlparse import urlsplit
ImportError: cannot import name urlsplit

Edit 2:

Rename your file urlparse.py to something else like myurlparse.py. Then you can import httplib.