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

Short answer: You are calling a file/directory as a function instead of real function

Read on:

This kind of error happens when you import module thinking it as function and call it. So in python module is a .py file. Packages(directories) can also be considered as modules. Let's say I have a create.py file. In that file I have a function like this:

#inside create.py
def create():
  pass

Now, in another code file if I do like this:

#inside main.py file
import create
create() #here create refers to create.py , so create.create() would work here

It gives this error as am calling the create.py file as a function. so I gotta do this:

from create import create
create() #now it works.

Hope that helps! Happy Coding!