why does "import filename" give a SYNTAX error

asked 2022-07-21 10:26:34 -0500

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I have a file A.py in the project directory and another file B.py in the same directory. In B I have the statement "import A" in the first line. I get the following error message:

Syntax Error: invalid syntax:

The same thing happens with : import A.py, import 'A.py', etc. The error is not that the file is missing or that the file has errors, but rather the import statement is syntactically incorrect.

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answered 2022-07-22 08:21:50 -0500

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For the record, this was resolved by email. The problem was that the imported filename was not A.py but rather a name that contained dashes like A-1.py. The syntax error was due to 'import A-1' not being valid Python. Python files can be named using dashes in the name but then can only be run directly and not imported. Using underscores as in A_1.py solves the problem since 'import A_1' is valid syntax.

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