On Apr 29, 1:54 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Apr 29, 12:46 pm, jmDesktop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > On Apr 29, 1:16 pm, jmDesktop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, I have this code (learning from Core Python, Chun's book), module > > > named chap2.py. > > > > class FooClass(object): > > > version=0.1 > > > > def __init__(self, nm='John Doe'): > > > self.name=nm > > > print 'Created a class instance for ', nm > > > def showname(self): > > > print 'Your name is', self.name > > > print 'My name is', self.__class__.__name__ > > > > On Windows, if I compile this and then in the python interpreter type: > > > > >>> import chap2 > > > >>> foo1=FooClass() > > > > Created a class instance for John Doe > > > > If I do the same think on my Mac OS X 10.5.2 > > > > NameError: name 'FooClass' is not defined. > > > > I thought it was the path and did export PATH=$PATH:/mypath/ > > > topythoncode > > > > but it did not help. > > > > What am I doing wrong? Thank you. > > > forgot to say that on the mac I can do import chap2, but when I try > > and instantiate I get the error above. > > It shouldn't work under Windows, either. You have to qualify the name > of the class with the name of the module, as in chap2.FooClass(). Or > you can type "from chap2 import FooClass" and then you'll be able to > simply say FooClass().- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
Thanks. That worked on mac. But it does work like I said in Windows. Don't know why. Mr. Chun must also be using Windows because that is the way he does it in his book. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list