Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.lang.python > #18491 > unrolled thread

Re: import issue with classes

Back to article view | Back to comp.lang.python

This discussion starts older than the indexed window; earlier articles aren't shown. The article labeled Started by below is the oldest one visible, not the original post.

Contents

  Re: import issue with classes Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-01-04 02:03 -0500

#18491 — Re: import issue with classes

On 1/3/2012 11:13 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> 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

why it *is* recommended (to have different names) and not recommended to 
have the same name, including case.

> fooa contain class FooA and why there were some module name changes in
> Py 3.
>


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

[toc] | [standalone]

Back to top | Article view | comp.lang.python

csiph-web