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Section 'Warnings' already exists error in Python

Today I wrote a script in Python to extract some data from Scopus API. The script was working perfectly. All of a sudden my code crashed and did not execute again. It shows an error when I import Scopus module:

import scopus

This is the error that I receive:

    "D:/PhD/Projects/Code/scopus/main.py"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:/PhD/Projects/Code/scopus/main.py", line 1, in <module>
    import scopus
  File "C:\Users\myUser\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\scopus\__init__.py", line 7, in <module>
    from scopus.utils import *
  File "C:\Users\myUser\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\scopus\utils\__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from scopus.utils.create_config import *
  File "C:\Users\myUser\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\scopus\utils\create_config.py", line 5, in <module>
    from scopus.utils.startup import config, CONFIG_FILE
  File "C:\Users\myUser\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\scopus\utils\startup.py", line 23, in <module>
    config.add_section('Warnings')
  File "C:\Users\myUser\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\lib\configparser.py", line 1200, in add_section
    super().add_section(section)
  File "C:\Users\myUser\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\lib\configparser.py", line 659, in add_section
    raise DuplicateSectionError(section)
configparser.DuplicateSectionError: Section 'Warnings' already exists

Any kind of help would be appreciated.

Solution

  • I just realized what to do to resolve the error. I opened the file mentioned in the error:

    C:\Users\myUser\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\scopus\utils\startup.py

    Then, I commented line 23, and problem solved!