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The first command dropbox.Dropbox() in the online tutorial encounters 'Cannot find reference'

Hi,

I am using Python and I started to learn about the Dropbox APIs by following the online tutorial at Python - Developers - Dropbox

I have generated my token through the App Consol, however, the following line of code encounters an error:

import dropbox

MY_TOKEN= 'XYZ'
dbx = dropbox.Dropbox(MY_TOKEN)

The error: **Cannot find reference 'Dropbox' in 'dropbox.py** ?

Any insights will be great.

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@hrh747 wrote:
... It is part of the dropbox library that gets downloaded when a user does **pip install dropbox**.
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Ok, I see. It's normal to be so, but I have my doubts what actually gets up. Let's make it sure. 😉

Add a line in your code, so it gonna look like:

import dropbox

print("dropbox imported from:", dropbox.__file__)

MY_TOKEN= 'XYZ'
dbx = dropbox.Dropbox(MY_TOKEN)

The only difference is underlined line. Once add the line in your code, run it. It will break again, but before the error, the same you got before, should be a line like "dropbox imported from: /path/to/dropbox.py". Does actual path match your expectations (place where pip has installed dropbox) or not? 🧐 Is there single such line in the result or there is another copy too? 🤔

Can you post the result?

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Здравко

@hrh747 wrote:
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The error: **Cannot find reference 'Dropbox' in 'dropbox.py** ?
Any insights will be great.

Hi @hrh747,

Is there any chance the file, mentioned within the error message, to refers to code you are writing? 🤔 i.e. referred byself (directly or indirectly)! 🧐🙂

Hope this helps.

hrh747

Hi,

The file dropbox.py is not mine. It is part of the dropbox library that gets downloaded when a user does **pip install dropbox**.

My code was only the two lines I posted previously.

Здравко

@hrh747 wrote:
... It is part of the dropbox library that gets downloaded when a user does **pip install dropbox**.
...

Ok, I see. It's normal to be so, but I have my doubts what actually gets up. Let's make it sure. 😉

Add a line in your code, so it gonna look like:

import dropbox

print("dropbox imported from:", dropbox.__file__)

MY_TOKEN= 'XYZ'
dbx = dropbox.Dropbox(MY_TOKEN)

Can you post the result?

hrh747

Whoever you are, you are a genius 🙂 I thank you immensely and yes you solved the problem by suggesting to add that print statement. Apparently, when I started learning Python (a few months ago), I downloaded a sample file from Dropbox and named it dropbox.py and the import statement was picking up that file instead of the one from the library.

Thanks once again