At 07:48 PM 11/28/2006, Kent Johnson wrote: >Dick Moores wrote: > > At 07:20 PM 11/28/2006, Kent Johnson wrote: > >> 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.) > >Yes, you can do that but in general that style is not recommended. It >makes it hard to figure out where names are defined and you can import >more than you really want. Better is to just import what you want, e.g. >from mine.toolTipDemo import A, b, CC
Thanks, Kent. Turns out all I needed was the class, ToolTip. So just from mine.toolTipDemo import ToolTip will do it. >or import the module with an alias: >import mine.toolTipDemo as TTD > >then refer to e.g. >TTD.demo() A good trick. Thanks very much, Kent. Dick _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
