AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'encode'

[IsmailM]

Hey,

I'm having some difficulty in getting bencode working:

pip install bencode.py

import bencode

bencode.encode({'title': 'Example'})

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
# <ipython-input-17-f26380d80be9> in <module>()
#       3 import bencode
#       4 
# ----> 5 bencode.encode({'title': 'Example'})

# AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'encode'

I would really appreciate a pointer in where I'm going wrong.

Btw, I'm using Python 2.7.10.

[fuzeman]

This is probably caused by a conflicting package that is using the same module name.

All these packages use the same module name (so only one can be installed):

• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/bencode
• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/BitTorrent-bencode
• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/bencode-parser
• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-bencode

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I'm thinking it might be best to change the name of the package to avoid conflicts with these other existing packages...

[ExSidius]

@IsmailM pip install bencode.py should resolve the package conflict (assuming you uninstall all bencodes before).