Python will not open a module within my .py file - python-3.x

Question

I was working on some code which retrieves a line in a text file ("save[#]) with the format:
"[name],[boolean or integer value]"
(The aim is to be able to retrieve it for save states of a game)
The issue is that whenever I try to return a value from my module I get the following:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "//IHS-FS-001.ihs.local/Cohort2020$/2ELGAG1/python/srctg/test.py", line 5, in <module>
retrieve()
File "//IHS-FS-001.ihs.local/Cohort2020$/2ELGAG1/python/srctg/test.py", line 3, in retrieve
if retrieve.check("test", 1) == True:
AttributeError: 'function' object has no attribute 'check'
The test attribute is a testing module set up to test the code for the game:
import retrieve.py
def retrieve():
if retrieve.check("test", 1) == True:
return True
retrieve()
The retrieve attribute itself is set up like so:
import error
def check(i_name, save):
save = str(save)
save_n = "save" + save + ".txt"
save_f = open(save_n, "r")
list = save_f.readlines()
for item in range(len(list)):
list[item] = list[item].strip()
list[item] = list[item].split(",")
list[item][1] = list[item][1]
for item in range(len(list)):
if i_name == list[item][0]:
i_return = list[item][1]
if bool_check(i_return) == True:
i_return = bool(i_return)
elif int_check(i_return) == True:
i_return = int(i_return)
else:
print(error.code("001"))
return "error"
return i_return
def int_check(value):
while True:
try:
value = int(value)
return True
break
except ValueError:
return False
break
def bool_check(value):
while True:
try:
value = bool(value)
return True
break
except ValueError:
return False
break

Answer 1

Don't include the .py in the import. This tries to import a module named py inside the package named retrieve, which is probably not what you meant.
import retrieve as retrieve_module
def retrieve():
if retrieve_module.check("test", 1) == True:
return True
Also, don't write a function with the same name as the module you just imported. Change the name of one or the other. That's why it can't find the .check attribute. It's looking inside the retrieve function instead of inside the retrieve module because you overwrote it in the global namespace (by executing the function definition) before you called the function.