Facebook-sdk python module has no attribute GraphAPI

Question

After installing the facebook-sdk module here, and looking at other solutions here and elsewhere, I keep getting this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "facebook.py", line 1, in <module>
    import facebook
  File "/home/facebook/facebook.py", line 3, in <module>
    graph = facebook.GraphAPI(access_token='ACCESS TOKEN HERE')
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'GraphAPI'

For this very simple python code to authenticate...

import facebook

graph = facebook.GraphAPI(access_token='ACCESS TOKEN HERE')

print 'Workinnnn'

It says my module is installed and up to date, and I have installed both within (as suggested) a virtualenv and outside, and still get the error. I also definitely HAVE the module in usr/local/lib/python etc. dist packages... and it contains the class GraphAPI

Has anyone got a suggestion either:

1) What might be going wrong? 2) What to try to fix it? UNinstall something? 3) If there is another way other than pip to install the module... I don't normally use pip (but definitely have it installed and installed facebook-sdk from it) so if there's another way then I'd like to try...

Cheers :/

joep1 · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-24 14:05:34Z

5

Solution = don't name your script the same as your module.

I'm an idiot, sigh...

answered Feb 24, 2015 at 14:05

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Kyle Calica-St Over a year ago

did the same thing as you haha

Jos Over a year ago

There are more idiots out there --blush-- Thx for posting this!

Ed S Over a year ago

I am stuck on the same error: graph = facebook.GraphAPI(ACCESS_TOKEN) AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'GraphAPI' -> Python 2.7.12 (default, Nov 19 2016, 06:48:10) Ubuntu

Ed S Over a year ago

I tested: "from facebook import GraphAPI" on prompt and there is no error!

Ed S Over a year ago

print facebook.__path__ -> /root/facebookenv/src/facebook-sdk/facebook

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