Re: [Tutor] Import Modules

2009-04-16 Thread Kent Johnson
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:21 AM, ALAN GAULD wrote: > > >> In general, importing a package does not give access to members of a >> sub-package. > > Interestingly I added the comment about sub packages specifically > because I remembered os.path and assumed it was the norm! :-) Yes, it took me a lo

Re: [Tutor] Import Modules

2009-04-16 Thread ALAN GAULD
> In general, importing a package does not give access to members of a > sub-package. You have to explicitly import the subpackage. For > example, > > In [1]: import xml > In [2]: xml.dom.Node > --- > AttributeError

Re: [Tutor] Import Modules

2009-04-15 Thread Kent Johnson
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: > When you import you import names, in the first case webapp. > Where the name is a package (ie a folder) that gives you access > to the modules (or sub packages) contained in that folder but > not to the contents of those items directly, hence t

Re: [Tutor] Import Modules

2009-04-15 Thread Alan Gauld
"Giorgio Bonfiglio" wrote from google.appengine.ext import webapp from google.appengine.ext.webapp.util import run_wsgi_app The first line imports the webapp subpackage (that is not actually a module, it's a subdirectory with some .py files into). So why do i need to import the specific fun

[Tutor] Import Modules

2009-04-15 Thread Giorgio Bonfiglio
Hi, hope this mailing list is still active. I'm learning phyton. I can write simple programs, and i've studied all examples provided by the Google App Engine Documentation. As i understood, i can import a module using something like: import modulename Or, import a specific function, using: fro