The Famous Error Message: "ImportError: No module named python_script"

[Fredrik Lundh]

rich murphy wrote:

> Thank you both for responding.
> 
> Yes of course the file has the ".py" extension and yes I went through
> the tutorial.

since everyone on this forum is importing modules successfully hundreds 
of times every day, that's not obvious at all.

try running the interpreter as

     python -vv

and see what it prints when you type

     import python_script

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