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Today's lesson: Never call your module types.py if you plan to run
Python from when standing in the same directory. It took me some
time to figure out what was going on:
$ touch types.py # empty file
$ python
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 68, in <module>
import os
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 398, in <module>
import UserDict
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/UserDict.py", line 83, in <module>
import _abcoll
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/_abcoll.py", line 70, in <module>
Iterable.register(str)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/abc.py", line 107, in register
if not isinstance(subclass, (type, types.ClassType)):
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'ClassType'
"Weeeaaht?"
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mid-kid commented Jul 26, 2013

Oh shitlord. This was really helpful.

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kevinseelbach commented Jul 10, 2014

I should buy you a beer , can't believe I did this

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pyKun commented Sep 7, 2015

your python crashed?

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