Re: Import Doesn't Import

From	Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject	Re: Import Doesn't Import
Date	2014-10-16 23:56 +0100
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On 16/10/2014 23:28, Joel Goldstick wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> wrote:
>> On 10/15/2014 5:40 PM, ryguy7272 wrote:
>>>
>>> ImportError: No module named 'urllib2'
>>> I'm telling Python to import because it doesn't exist and it throws an
>>> error.  I don't get it; I just don't get it.  If I'm working with R, I can
>>> import thousands of libraries with no errors whatsoever.  With Python, I
>>> just get thousands of errors with nothing working whatsoever.  I totally
>>> don't understand this language.  Import means import.  Right.  WTF!!!!!
>>
>>
>> So, maybe Import doesn't mean import -- perhaps you expect import to
>> retrieve content from the web and make it importable(1). That's not what
>> python's import does. Python's version looks for a local module to import.
>>
>> I'd suggest starting with the tutorial.
>>
>> Emile
>>
>>
>> (1) which would imply execution of arbitrary code.
>>
>> --
>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>
> requests is a better choice than urllib
>

To an experienced user yes, to an inexperienced OP who can't even run a 
Python program without help a very emphatic no.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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Import Doesn't Import ryguy7272 <ryanshuell@gmail.com> - 2014-10-15 17:40 -0700
  Re: Import Doesn't Import ryguy7272 <ryanshuell@gmail.com> - 2014-10-15 17:44 -0700
    Re: Import Doesn't Import Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2014-10-15 18:19 -0700
    Re: Import Doesn't Import Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-10-15 22:43 -0400
    Re: Import Doesn't Import Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-10-16 09:01 +0100
  Re: Import Doesn't Import Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-10-16 11:54 +1100
  Re: Import Doesn't Import Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2014-10-15 18:12 -0700
  Re: Import Doesn't Import MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-10-16 02:13 +0100
  Python 3 is the active language, recommended for newcomers (was: Import Doesn't Import) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-10-16 12:35 +1100
  Re: Import Doesn't Import Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2014-10-15 18:21 -0700
  Re: Import Doesn't Import Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-10-15 22:11 -0400
  Re: Import Doesn't Import Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2014-10-16 14:29 -0700
  Re: Import Doesn't Import Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2014-10-16 18:28 -0400
  Re: Import Doesn't Import Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-10-16 23:56 +0100

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