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Avoid file naming conflicts with the standard library
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- Gene Zhang
Given the file structure:
% tree -L 3
.
├── heapq.py
├── merge_sort.py
└── quick_sort.py
I ran heapq.py in VSCode, but all the python files were executed. And an error occured:
AttributeError: partially initialized module 'heapq' has no attribute 'heapify' (most likely due to a circular import)
why?
This is because the file was named heapq.py, which conflicted with Python's standard library module heapq.
To avoid any issues, rename the file to something unique like heapq_example.py.