ImportError: cannot import name ‘…’ from partially initialized module ‘…’ (most likely due to a circular import)

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For future readers, this can also happen if you name a python file the same name as a dependency your project uses.

For example:

I cannot have a file named retrying.py that is using the retrying package.

Assuming I had the retrying package in my project, I could not have a file called retrying.py with the below contents:

from retrying import retry
print("HI")

A similar error with the message “most likely due to a circular import” would occur.

The same contents would work fine if I renamed the file to “retrying_example1.py”

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