One of my students wrote the following script:
import matplotlib.pylab as plt
He named the script numbers.py (because the task was about to process some numbers)
This is the output:
>>> python numbers.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “numbers.py”, line 1, in
import matplotlib.pylab as plt
File “/home/a1634120/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/matplotlib/init.py”, line 138, in
from . import cbook, rcsetup
File “/home/a1634120/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/matplotlib/cbook/init.py”, line 17, in
import numbers
File “/home/a1634120/matplotlib_case/numbers.py”, line 1, in
import matplotlib.pylab as plt
File “/home/a1634120/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/matplotlib/pylab.py”, line 214, in
from matplotlib.cbook import flatten, silent_list, iterable, dedent
ImportError: cannot import name ‘flatten’ from ‘matplotlib.cbook’ (/home/a1634120/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/matplotlib/cbook/init.py)
Interesting isn’t?