Module 'Levenshtein' has no attribute 'distance' about levenshtein

[maxbachmann]

Yes it should be compatible. The only case I am aware of, which leads to something like this, is an incompatible installation of an old version of python-Levenshtein and Levenshtein. This is usually resolved by:

pip uninstall Levenshtein python-Levenshtein
pip install Levenshtein

If this does not fix the issue: Can you check in your installation directory which files are installed in there for the Levenshtein module?

[grabani]

Unfortunately that didn't work. I also uninstalled and re-installed the rapidfuzz package as it contained references to the Levenshtein package.

The files in my Levenshtein package installation are:

[maxbachmann]

The directory looks correct. What it the output of dir(Levenshtein)?

[grabani]

print(dir(Levenshtein))
['Levenshtein', '__builtins__', '__cached__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__spec__']

[maxbachmann]

Sounds to me like you are importing from somewhere incorrect. Is Levenshtein.__path__ the expected path?

[grabani]

Sorry, how do I check if Levenshtein.__path__ the expected path?

[maxbachmann]

You can simply print it and see whether it is the path to the site-packages directory of Levenshtein.

[grabani]

I get the following error:

print(Levenshtein.__path__)
AttributeError: module 'Levenshtein' has no attribute '__path__'

I also tried:

impot os
import Levenshtein

print(os.path.abspath(Levenshtein.__path__[0]))

I get the same error.

[maxbachmann]

Ah sorry I did not see it was missing from your import. Still this means something is going horribly wrong. It is hard to tell what exactly is wrong in your environment. Maybe try to perform the same from a python shell in a different directory.

From what I can tell this is unrelated to the package itself.

[grabani]

My coding has all be done in VSCode. I will try and execute using the Python 3.7.0 command line.

[grabani]

All seems fine from the command line:

C:\Users\Home>python
Python 3.7.0 (v3.7.0:1bf9cc5093, Jun 27 2018, 04:59:51) [MSC v.1914 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import Levenshtein
>>> print(Levenshtein.__path__)
['C:\\Users\\Home\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python37\\lib\\site-packages\\Levenshtein']
>>> print(Levenshtein.distance("lewenstein", "levenshtein"))
2
>>>

Any suggestions why it would not work from VSCode?? Can I hardcode the PATH in my script?

[maxbachmann]

I would start off by comparing sys.path for the command line and the run from within VS Code.

[grabani]

For the benefit of others...

The issue was caused by the fact that my Python code file was called Levenshtein.py. Changing the name of my Python code file resolved the issue.

Thanks.