Attribute Error in PyDev

Question

Recently installed PyDev for Eclipse Oxygen 3 on WIndows 10. As a new programmer I am writing basic programs as I work through a "learn to code" book. The example I am working on uses a module called "snaps", which is in "pygame". The program below works fine in the Python Shell IDE.

import snaps

temp = snaps.get_weather_temp(latitude=47.61, longitude=-122.33)

print('The temperature in Seattle is:', temp)

Output: The temperature in Seattle is: 60

But when I run this in PyDev I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\mando\eclipse- 
workspace\BeginToCodeWithPython\Chapter4\ActualTemp.py", line 9, in <module>
temp = snaps.get_weather_temp(latitude=47.61, longitude=-122.33)
AttributeError: module 'snaps' has no attribute 'get_weather_temp'

I've confirmed the Python Path is set correctly in windows and the PyDev Interpreter is set correctly as well. I've added every lib, script folder etc. I can under project and perspective preferences. I've even added the pygame folder to my workspace. But I still am getting the errors.

I've confirmed that "get_weather_temp" is in the snaps module via the help() function, and it works in the IDE, just not in PyDev.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Answer 1

I think this may help you. If I'm not mistaken PyDev needs to be told where to look for the "modules"/"libraries" where installing it the IDE uses the default and pydev would use its own environment. (below snippet is from comments) if you have any questions just ask - its ready to go you just need to put your own api key in. (it defaults to kelvin so you'd have to convert to f or c, i didn't take the time,if you want to do that i found an example here)

also this is what the json response looks like if you are curious. the output would look like: the current temp of Seattle is 284.02

import requests
import json
# settings
key = 'put your api key here' #you can get a free api from https://home.openweathermap.org/api_keys 
#takes less then 10 seconds to make an account, no verification.
base = 'http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q='
id = '&appid='
city = 'Seattle,US' # found here; https://openweathermap.org/ you could add exceptions here for failed responses or a method for the user to input their own request etc)
url = base + city + id + key #following their api structure, probably much better ways to do this lol

response = requests.get(url) #send the request to the api and brings it back
data = response.json() #saves the response as json (seemed easier they had multiple options)
json_str = json.dumps(data) #turn the response into a string
resp_dict = json.loads(json_str) #turn string into dict (i learned today to turn it into a dict it has to be a string,i couldn't figure out to print specifics from a str so i converted to a dict)
temp = resp_dict['main']['temp'] #grabs the temp from the dict
loc = resp_dict['name'] #grabs the location defined above (seattle)
print('the current temp of {} is {}'.format(loc,temp)) #(prints the current location and temp)

decided to try out the conversion - it was much easier to use the pyowm lib. the output would look like "The current temp in Seattle is 51.57" I made the variables stupid long so you could follow along.

import json
import pyowm


owm = pyowm.OWM('your key here')
location = 'Seattle' #i only made this a seperate variable so i could call it later/change it
observation = owm.weather_at_place(location) #tells the api where the location is
weather = observation.get_weather() #gets the weather of location above
temperature = weather.get_temperature('fahrenheit')
temperature_to_string = json.dumps(temperature)
temperature_string_to_dictionary = json.loads(temperature_to_string)
temperature = temperature_string_to_dictionary['temp'] 
print('The current temp in {} is {}'.format(location, temperature))