Serial comm to Arduino - ImportError: cannot import name Serial from serial

Question

Trying to send a message from my Pi to the Arduino via serial communication and I'm receiving this error despite having installed pyserial ImportError: cannot import name 'Serial' from 'serial' (/home/pi/serial.py)

When I change my code to import serial instead of from serial import Serial, the same error presents.

Wondering if anyone else has had this issue and you resolved it.

from serial import Serial
import time

if __name__ == '__main__':
    ser = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyACM0', 9600, timeout=1)
    ser.flush()

while True:
    ser.write(b"Hello from Raspberry Pi!\n")
    line = ser.readline().decode('utf-8').rstrip()
    print(line)
    time.sleep(1)

Answer 1

It looks like your code file is named serial.py. Change it to something else!

If you name a file in the current working directory after a module, then Python will use that file in your current working directory than the modules installed.