How to import variable from another file [duplicate]

Question

I'm fairly new to Python. Here's the code in 'file1'

phrases = []
buildWord = ""

file = open("words.txt")
words = file.read()
for i in words:
    if(i == "\n"):
        phrases.append(buildWord)
        buildWord = ""
    else:
        buildWord += i
file.close()

Basically, there's a loop that gets all words in a file called 'words.txt' and appends them into a list called phrases. Now, in 'file2' I would like to simply import this phrases variable to use. Here's the code used in 'file2'

from 'file1' import phrases

This throws an error "no module named, is not a package". Why am I getting this error?

You should name your file1 as file1.py and import it like: from file1 import phrases — sahinakkaya
– sahinakkaya, Commented Jun 9, 2020 at 20:50

Community · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-20 09:12:55Z

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Try removing the ' ' from 'file1' and try this: from file1 import phrases

Edit:

Someone in the comment said you should rename your file1 to file1.py. Make sure to do that too :)

edited Jun 20, 2020 at 9:12

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answered Jun 9, 2020 at 20:52

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