Error when importing within spyder, not occuring outside of spyder

[Miguel-LlamasLanza]

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Problem Description

I import a module and then call a class of this module. This simply creates a AttributeError in Spyder but not outside. This occurs both when running a script that calls this object, or when doing it directly in the terminal.

This module is not public, but I will explain the situation here. Inside the project there is a folder called core. Inside this folder, there are several scripts, including one called count_lc.py, and an __init__.py file. Inside count_lc.py there is the class CountLC() that we want to call. Inside __init__.py, we can find imports such as from .count_lc import CountLC.

In other parts of the project, the CountLC object is called as follows:

This works fine when running the scripts that call this directly on the terminal, or within ipython console as well (as in the image above).
However, this fails when running scripts in spyder, or even within spyder Ipython console:

As you can see, in spyder it works when calling directly ec.CountLC, but not ec.count_lc.CountLC, while outside of spyder both work good.

Note: If the imports are done in the following way, it works as expected:

Is there something fundamentally wrong with the way the class is imported in this package? Even if there is, the fact that it works outside of spyder but not in spyder probably denotes an issue to be solved with Spyder, right?

What steps reproduce the problem?

1. Having a package with the imports as explained above
2. Running the ec.count_lc command after importing ec, as explained above.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

See description and images above.

Paste Traceback/Error Below (if applicable)

Traceback (most recent call last):

  Cell In[18], line 1
    ec.count_lc

AttributeError: module 'eclgrm_tools.core' has no attribute 'count_lc'

Versions

• Spyder version: 5.4.5 (conda)
• Python version: 3.10.11 64-bit
• Qt version: 5.15.2
• PyQt5 version: 5.15.7
• Operating System: Linux-6.5.0-28-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.35

Dependencies

# Mandatory:
atomicwrites >=1.2.0                                                        :  1.4.1 (OK)
chardet >=2.0.0                                                             :  4.0.0 (OK)
cloudpickle >=0.5.0                                                         :  2.2.1 (OK)
cookiecutter >=1.6.0                                                        :  2.1.1 (OK)
diff_match_patch >=20181111                                                 :  20230430 (OK)
intervaltree >=3.0.2                                                        :  3.1.0 (OK)
IPython >=7.31.1,<9.0.0,!=8.8.0,!=8.9.0,!=8.10.0,!=8.11.0,!=8.12.0,!=8.12.1 :  8.14.0 (OK)
jedi >=0.17.2,<0.19.0                                                       :  0.18.2 (OK)
jellyfish >=0.7                                                             :  0.9.0 (OK)
jsonschema >=3.2.0                                                          :  4.17.3 (OK)
keyring >=17.0.0                                                            :  23.13.1 (OK)
nbconvert >=4.0                                                             :  7.5.0 (OK)
numpydoc >=0.6.0                                                            :  1.5.0 (OK)
parso >=0.7.0,<0.9.0                                                        :  0.8.3 (OK)
pexpect >=4.4.0                                                             :  4.8.0 (OK)
pickleshare >=0.4                                                           :  0.7.5 (OK)
psutil >=5.3                                                                :  5.9.0 (OK)
pygments >=2.0                                                              :  2.15.1 (OK)
pylint >=2.5.0,<3.0                                                         :  2.17.4 (OK)
pylint_venv >=3.0.2                                                         :  3.0.2 (OK)
pyls_spyder >=0.4.0                                                         :  0.4.0 (OK)
pylsp >=1.7.4,<1.8.0                                                        :  1.7.4 (OK)
pylsp_black >=1.2.0,<3.0.0                                                  :  1.3.0 (OK)
qdarkstyle >=3.0.2,<3.2.0                                                   :  3.1 (OK)
qstylizer >=0.2.2                                                           :  0.2.2 (OK)
qtawesome >=1.2.1                                                           :  1.2.3 (OK)
qtconsole >=5.4.2,<5.5.0                                                    :  5.4.3 (OK)
qtpy >=2.1.0                                                                :  2.3.1 (OK)
rtree >=0.9.7                                                               :  1.0.1 (OK)
setuptools >=49.6.0                                                         :  67.8.0 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6                                                              :  7.0.1 (OK)
spyder_kernels >=2.4.4,<2.5.0                                               :  2.4.4 (OK)
textdistance >=4.2.0                                                        :  4.5.0 (OK)
three_merge >=0.1.1                                                         :  0.1.1 (OK)
watchdog >=0.10.3                                                           :  3.0.0 (OK)
xdg >=0.26                                                                  :  0.28 (OK)
zmq >=22.1.0                                                                :  25.1.0 (OK)

# Optional:
cython >=0.21                                                               :  0.29.35 (OK)
matplotlib >=3.0.0                                                          :  3.7.1 (OK)
numpy >=1.7                                                                 :  1.23.5 (OK)
pandas >=1.1.1                                                              :  1.5.3 (OK)
scipy >=0.17.0                                                              :  1.10.1 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.3                                                               :  1.11.1 (OK)

# Spyder plugins:
spyder_line_profiler.spyder.plugin 0.3.1                                    :  0.3.1 (OK)
spyder_notebook.notebookplugin 0.4.1                                        :  0.4.1 (OK)

[ccordoba12]

Hey @Miguel-LlamasLanza, thanks for reporting. Could you upload a simple code project (i.e. the folder that contains that code) that generates this problem?

Otherwise it'd be hard for us to understand why importing it inside Spyder is different from doing it outside of it.