ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'http.server'; 'http' is not a package

I am trying to setup http server on my machine but I get the error:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'http.server'; 'http' is not a package

I have 2 files in my project directory: http.py and index.html.

Here is the http.py:

import http.server
import socketserver

PORT = 8080
Handler = http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler

with socketserver.TCPServer(("", PORT), Handler) as httpd:
    print("serving at port", PORT)
    httpd.serve_forever()

I have already tried changing module to BaseHTTPServer and I get this error:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'BaseHTTPServer'

I also notice a weird thing happen on my terminal. If I try do

python3 -m pip uninstall <module>

I get an error such as

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'http.server'; 'http' is not a package

which is throwing me off because I am not even running the file. I mention this in case it is any indication that some local configuration might be the problem of all.

You have named your file as http.py. This is overriding the standard library http module. To solve:

• You have to rename the file http.py to something else.

• Remove .pyc files in the project

  find . -name "*.pyc" -delete

• Run the program again.

It may interest you to read up on how modules and packages work in Python.