[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Oct 1, 10:03?pm, rjcarr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Sorry if this is a completely newbie question ... >> >> I was trying to get information about the logging.handlers module, so >> I imported logging, and tried dir(logging.handlers), but got: >> >> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'handlers' > > What do suppose that message means? > >> The only experience I have in modules is os and os.path ... if I do >> the same thing, simply import os and then type dir(os.path), it >> displays the contents as expected. >> >> So my question is ... why are they different? > > Because you misspelled it. First, do a dir() on logging:
No, he didn't. There is a logging.handlers module; it's just not imported by importing logging. OP: logging is a package and logging.handlers is one module in the package. Not all of the modules in a package are imported by importing the top-level package. os.path is a particularly weird case because it is just an alias to the platform-specific path-handling module; os is not a package. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
