error while importing ngram in python

Question

I have installed ngram using pip install ngram. While I am running the following code

from ngram import NGram
c=NGram.compare('cereal_crop','cereals')
print c

I get the error ImportError: cannot import name NGram

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P.S. A similar question has been asked previously using ngram in python, but that time the person who was getting error did not install ngram, so installing ngram worked. In my case I am getting the error in spite of ngram being installed.

Answer 1

Your Python script is named ngram.py, so it defines a module named ngram. When Python runs from ngram import NGram, Python ends up looking in your script for something named NGram, not in the ngram module you have installed.

Try changing the name of your script to something else, for example ngram_test.py.

Answer 2

try like this:

import ngram
c = ngram.NGram.compare('cereal_crop','cereals')
print c