Error with the asyncio module

Question

I’m trying to run the example below in IDLE (Python 3.43, Windows 7, 64bits), there are days, but always gives an error. I tried to search for solution on the English version site, on google, and found no answer. I can run on Anaconda, but on IDLE it does not work. The asyncio module is already installed. I’ll put the code and then the error:

import asyncio

def print_and_repeat(loop):
    print('Hello World')
    loop.call_later(2, print_and_repeat, loop)

loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.call_soon(print_and_repeat, loop)
loop.run_forever()

Error:

Traceback (most recent call last):   
  File   "C:\Users\Gustavo\Desktop\asyncio.py", line 1, in <module>  
    import asyncio   File "C:\Users\Gustavo\Desktop\asyncio.py", line 7, in <module>  
loop = asyncio.get_event_loop() AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'get_event_loop'

Answer 1

If you called your file asyncio.py it has more priority to be loaded than the asyncio from the standard library. (The folder of the current file always stays before in Python Path). So when you do import asyncio is making a reference to the module itself that is writing (and that does not have the function get_event_loop.

Try simply renaming your file to asyncio_example.py, for example.

(Upon reading the question, I suspected that this was the problem and would put the suggestion as a comment - but you confirmed in the comments that in fact your module has the name of asyncio.py)