At 07:20 PM 11/28/2006, Kent Johnson wrote: >Dick Moores wrote: > > I just discovered something for Tkinter that I want to use. It's a > > Tooltip class, at <http://tkinter.unpythonic.net/wiki/ToolTip> . > > > > I've copied it to a file I named toolTipDemo.py and put it with a > > couple of other files I use as modules. They're in > > E:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\mine. One file there is intSpell.py, > > and I can import it by > > > > from mine.intSpell import intSpell > > > > With no problem: > > >>> from mine.intSpell import intSpell > > >>> > > However, the same method of importing doesn't work with toolTipDemo: > > >>> from mine.toolTipDemo import toolTipDemo > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "<string>", line 1, in <string> > > ImportError: cannot import name toolTipDemo > >Try >from mine.toolTipDemo import demo > >mine.toolTipDemo points to the module, then you need to reference a name >defined in the module. (You must have something called intSpell in >intSpell.py.)
Interestingly (or not) it just hit me that I should try that, and it worked. So I suppose that if I want to use tooltips in a Tkinter program, I can just use "from mine.toolTipDemo import *" and use what I need. (Haven't tried that yet, however.) Thanks, Kent. Dick _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
