AttributeError: module ‘pyttsx3’ has no attribute ‘init’ [closed]

First of all, I’m using:

• Windows 10
• Python 3.6.2 (but I’ve tried with Python 3.5.4 too)
• pyttsx3 module

I’m trying to use pyttsx3 but I just can’t initialize it, with the official code examples.

My code (just like the examples from here and here):

import pyttsx3
engine = pyttsx3.init()
engine.say('Just a sample text.')
engine.runAndWait()

And the second line gives me this error:

AttributeError: module ‘pyttsx3’ has no attribute ‘init’

I installed it with PIP:

pip install pyttsx3

And I tried to fix it installing pypiwin32 but it still doesn’t work:

pip install pypiwin32

When I execute the following script:

import pyttsx3
print(dir(pyttsx3))

I get this:

['__builtins__', '__cached__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__spec__', 'pyttsx3']

There is this:

drivers (folder)
__pycache__ (folder)
driver.py
engine.py
six.py
voice.py
__init__.py

At:

C:Program FilesPython36Libsite-packagespyttsx3

And the contents of the file __init__.py (I omitted comments):

from .engine import Engine
import weakref

_activeEngines = weakref.WeakValueDictionary()

def init(driverName=None, debug=False):
    try:
        eng = _activeEngines[driverName]
    except KeyError:
        eng = Engine(driverName, debug)
        _activeEngines[driverName] = eng
    return eng

Answer

It appears that the module pyttsx3 is not properly initialised. I hope you don’t have a file named pyttsx3.py anywhere in the module path. I found a related issue here.