jim stockford wrote: > many thanks. > wrt import and what's named, in the case of > the PIL library, the import statement can be > import Image # not import PIL > That is because the directory Lib/site-packages/PIL is in sys.path, so any PIL module can be imported directly without the PIL prefix. (The PIL dir is added to sys.path by the file Lib/site-customize/PIL.pth.)
> my presumption is that the PIL whatever-it-is > contains a set of whatever-they-are, one of > which is named Image. > In the above usage I would say PIL is a directory containing a collection of modules. But PIL is also a package, since you can say from PIL import Image Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
