TypeError: 'module' object is not callable

Question

File \"C:\\Users\\Administrator\\Documents\\Mibot\\oops\\blinkserv.py\", line 82, in __init__
    self.serv = socket(AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM)
TypeError: \'module\' objec         


        

Answer 1

socket is a module, containing the class socket.

You need to do socket.socket(...) or from socket import socket:

>>> import socket
>>> socket

>>> socket.socket

>>>
>>> from socket import socket
>>> socket

This is what the error message means:
It says module object is not callable, because your code is calling a module object. A module object is the type of thing you get when you import a module. What you were trying to do is to call a class object within the module object that happens to have the same name as the module that contains it.

Here is a way to logically break down this sort of error:

• "module object is not callable. Python is telling me my code trying to call something that cannot be called. What is my code trying to call?"
• "The code is trying to call on socket. That should be callable! Is the variable socket is what I think it is?`
• I should print out what socket is and check print socket