Re: import issue with classes

From	Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject	Re: import issue with classes
Date	2012-01-03 23:13 -0500
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On 1/3/2012 10:06 PM, Andrew Berg wrote:
> On 1/3/2012 8:50 PM, Rodrick Brown wrote:
>> Import FooA doesn't work and I need to use from FooA import FooA
>> instead? This puzzles me.
>> Thanks.
> If you have a module called FooA with a class called FooA, then import
> FooA imports the /module/. The class would be FooA.FooA, just as the
> variable x from FooA would be FooA.x.

This sort of confusion is why it is not recommended to have file/module 
fooa contain class FooA and why there were some module name changes in Py 3.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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