Thank you for your responses. The file I think is responsible was called types.py
Sent from my iPad > On 9 Jan 2017, at 16:11, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > > Gretchen Hasselbring wrote: > >> FYI >> >> Turns out I was saving my practice exercises as files (.py) under the >> python directory which conflicted with the running of Idle. All cleared >> up now. > > Thanks for the update. Can you tell which file you shadowed to cause the > error? Perhaps even if the underlying problem turns out to be hard to fix at > least the error message could be improved. > > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list