api = twitter.Api() AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Api

Question

I have been trying to write a simple mention grabber to get started with the twitter Api. Howsoever I\'ve been experienceing some difficulties when initializing the Api. Run

Answer 1

I got the same error because my python file was called twitter.py. It contained:

import twitter
api = twitter.Api (consumer_key=...

I renamed the file to twitterdata.py, removed twitter.pyc and then it worked.