Why am I getting "AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'replace'" on string.replace()

Question

The line causing the error is

totalR = totalR + (float(string.replace(contri[0][5],",","")) + float(string.replace(contri[0][6],",","")))

contri[0][5] and [6] are strings that contain numbers formatted as 1,000.00. I'm removing the commas before I cast the strings as floats in order to add them to totalR, which is a float. (Created as totalR = 0.0) I also tried using Decimal, but the error happened there too. I did "import string". The program fails with error:

File "mine.py", line 43, in fillDonorData
totalR = totalR + (float(string.replace(contri[0][5],",","")) + float(string.replace(contri[0][6],",","")))
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'replace'

Solution 1

Methods in the string module have been deprecated for years. You should call replace directly on your string, or contri[6].

Solution 2

It is now on str.replace on Python 3.

Looks like the same thing renamed, have the same signature and a docstring with the same meaning.

Comments

[abarnert]

In 2.x, the Deprecated string functions still work despite being deprecated. In 3.x, most of them (including replace) no longer exist. However, there are still plenty of non-deprecated functions, constants, and classes in string.

[Zizouz212]

string is a builtin module. But this is correct, you would have to reload if changes are made.