kivy: ImportError: No module named app

Question

I just installed Kivy by following the steps mentioned on the official documentation.

So I tried to test if it works by running an example found on the official documentation:

import kivy

from kivy.app import App
from kivy.uix.label import Label   

class MyApp(App):

    def build(self):
        return Label(text='Hello world')


if __name__ == '__main__':
    MyApp().run()

However, I got this error:

begueradj@begueradj-hacker:~# python kivy.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "kivy.py", line 1, in <module>
    import kivy
  File "/root/kivy.py", line 3, in <module>
    from kivy.app import App
ImportError: No module named app

Installation went ok, so why is this problem ?

Solution

You named your file kivy.py. Rename it to something else. You are importing from your file not the kivy package. Make sure to delete any .pyc file also.

Comments

[howMuchCheeseIsTooMuchCheese]

you also can't name the file run.py

[Beez]

haha. Did the same thing. Didn't even think about that!