+1 Subject line of the week (SLOTW) rjcarr wrote: > So my question is ... why are they [os.path and logging.handlers] different?
[A] wrote: > Because you misspelled it. First, do a dir() on logging: [B] wrote: > No, he didn't... OP: logging is a package and logging.handlers is one module > in the package... os.path is a particularly weird case... [C] wrote: > You can't import packages, only modules. [D] wrote: > Oh come on, this is unnecessary nitpicking. [E] wrote: > You *can* import a package, and a package is just a *little* different from a > module [B] wrote: > Yes, but os.path is also module. That's why I said it was a weird case. [C] wrote: > You can't have modules within modules. os.path isn't an exception...It's just > a variable that happens to point to the posixpath module. [F] wrote: > There's no "pointing" going on. It's another name bound to the same object, > of equal status to the 'posixpath' name. [G] wrote: > a module is just an object, that can of course be an attribute of another > module object [H] wrote: > os is not a package; os.path is set when the os module is imported [C] wrote: > You're right. I was misremembering the behaviour of PyCrypto [J] wrote: > In Matlab you can use function dec2bin, hex2dec, dec2hex bin2dec functions to > convert decimal to binary and heximal etc. [B] wrote: > I believe that is precisely what I was saying. with apologies to all concerned :-) Michael -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
