TypeError: 'module' object is not callable when importing module through __init__.py

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Example Code

import utilsimport os, json
from typing import Optional
from fastapi import FastAPI
import uvicorn
import random
from fastapi import FastAPI, Request, UploadFile, File
from fastapi.responses import HTMLResponse
from fastapi.staticfiles import StaticFiles
from fastapi.templating import Jinja2Templates
# Import module, use __init__.py to add more modules
import utils


app = FastAPI()
app.mount("/static/", StaticFiles(directory="static"), name="static")
templates = Jinja2Templates(directory="templates")

# this function seem to say that the function "metrics" from utils is not callable????
@app.get("/api/v1/readability/results/", response_class=HTMLResponse, tags=["Text generation & analysis"],     description="Send a given text in string and analyse multiple metrics of it. Things like readability formulas, number of syllables and more.",)
def analyse_text(request: Request, story: str):
    story = utils.add_dot(story)
    count_syllables = utils.syllable_count(story)
    sentence_1 = story.count('.')
    sentence_2 = story.count('!')
    sentence_3 = story.count('?')
    count_sentence = sentence_1 + sentence_2 + sentence_3
    count_word = len(story.split())
    word_list = story.split()
    syllable_per_word = [utils.syllable_count(i) for i in word_list]
    count_complex_words = sum(1 for x in syllable_per_word if x >= 3)
    characters = len(story)
    flesch_reading_ease_formula, flesch_grade_level_formula, gunning_fog_index, smog_index, coleman_liau_index, automated_readability_index = utils.metrics( 
        characters, count_syllables, count_word, count_complex_words, count_sentence)

    return templates.TemplateResponse("readability-results.html", 
    {"request": request, 
    "count_syllable": count_syllables,
    "count_word": count_word,
    "average_syllable_per_word": round(count_syllables / count_word, 2),
    "count_sentence": count_sentence,
    "count_complex_words": count_complex_words,
    "percentage_complex_words": round(count_complex_words / count_word * 100, 2),
    "gunning_fog_index": gunning_fog_index,
    "smog_index": smog_index,
    "coleman_liau_index": coleman_liau_index,
    "automated_readability_index": automated_readability_index,
    "flesch_grade_level_formula": flesch_grade_level_formula,
    "flesch_reading_ease_formula": flesch_reading_ease_formula
    })

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Hey everyone, now this one is quite interesting: I’ve looked through all the GitHub issues and stack overflow and I understand the meaning of the issue however, I do not know why I am getting the error:

I import modules from a folder called utils using init.py

# this function seem to say that the function "metrics" from utils is not callable????
@app.get("/api/v1/readability/results/", response_class=HTMLResponse, tags=["Text generation & analysis"],     description="Send a given text in string and analyse multiple metrics of it. Things like readability formulas, number of syllables and more.",)
def analyse_text(request: Request, story: str):
    story = utils.add_dot(story)
    count_syllables = utils.syllable_count(story)
    sentence_1 = story.count('.')
    sentence_2 = story.count('!')
    sentence_3 = story.count('?')
    count_sentence = sentence_1 + sentence_2 + sentence_3
    count_word = len(story.split())
    word_list = story.split()
    syllable_per_word = [utils.syllable_count(i) for i in word_list]
    count_complex_words = sum(1 for x in syllable_per_word if x >= 3)
    characters = len(story)
    flesch_reading_ease_formula, flesch_grade_level_formula, gunning_fog_index, smog_index, coleman_liau_index, automated_readability_index = utils.metrics( 
        characters, count_syllables, count_word, count_complex_words, count_sentence)

    return templates.TemplateResponse("readability-results.html", 
    {"request": request, 
    "count_syllable": count_syllables,
    "count_word": count_word,
    "average_syllable_per_word": round(count_syllables / count_word, 2),
    "count_sentence": count_sentence,
    "count_complex_words": count_complex_words,
    "percentage_complex_words": round(count_complex_words / count_word * 100, 2),
    "gunning_fog_index": gunning_fog_index,
    "smog_index": smog_index,
    "coleman_liau_index": coleman_liau_index,
    "automated_readability_index": automated_readability_index,
    "flesch_grade_level_formula": flesch_grade_level_formula,
    "flesch_reading_ease_formula": flesch_reading_ease_formula
    }) 

While runing the API call I am getting this error below:

File "/Users/hugo/Documents/GitHub/dystech-api/./main.py", line 69, in analyse_text
    flesch_reading_ease_formula, flesch_grade_level_formula, gunning_fog_index, smog_index, coleman_liau_index, automated_readability_index = utils.metrics(
TypeError: 'module' object is not callable

This is my metrics function:

def metrics(characters, syllables, wordcount, complex_words_count, sentences_count):
    flesch_reading_ease_formula = round(206.835 - 1.015 *
                                        (wordcount/sentences_count) - 84.6 * (syllables/wordcount), 2)
    flesch_grade_level_formula = round(
        0.39 * (wordcount/sentences_count) + 11.8 * (syllables/wordcount) - 15.59, 0)
    gunning_fog_index = round(
        0.4 * ((wordcount/sentences_count) + 100 * (complex_words_count/wordcount)), 2)
    smog_index = round(
        1.0430 * math.sqrt(30 * complex_words_count / sentences_count) + 3.1291, 2)
    coleman_liau_index = round(
        5.89 * (characters / wordcount) - 0.3 * (sentences_count / wordcount) - 15.8, 2)
    automated_readability_index = round(
        4.71 * (characters / wordcount) + 0.5 * (wordcount / sentences_count) - 21.43, 2)
    return flesch_reading_ease_formula, flesch_grade_level_formula, gunning_fog_index, smog_index, coleman_liau_index, automated_readability_index

I am not sure where to start since all the other functions seem to work but this one. And it’s clearly not a class so any help would be apreciated 😃

Operating System

macOS

Operating System Details

No response

FastAPI Version

0.70.0

Python Version

Python 3.9.7

Additional Context

No response

[oligond]

@hugo-dystech Great, just what I had suspected 😉

Have you already noticed that your utils package indeed contains a metrics module that is shadowing your utils.metrics.metrics function due to the star import?

The simplest solution should be to rename the “metrics” function, let’s call it calculate_metrics for the sake of example.

Update your call to that function in main.py accordingly,

    flesch_reading_ease_formula, flesch_grade_level_formula, gunning_fog_index, smog_index, coleman_liau_index, automated_readability_index = utils.calculate_metrics( 
        characters, count_syllables, count_word, count_complex_words, count_sentence)

and there you go.

[oligond]

Awesome, happy to help!