On May 13, 1:49 pm, Gary Herron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Henry wrote: > > Hi list, > > > I can't understand this. The following import statement works fine: > > > from PythonCard.templates.dialogs import runOptionsDialog > > > but this one fails: > > > from PythonCard.tools.codeEditor.codeEditor import CodeEditor > > This kind of "dotted" name import only works for packages, and a > directory is considered a package only if it contains a file name > __init__.py. Looking around my installation of PythonCard (on Linux) > I see that most of those directories *do NOT* have a __init__.py, so > they are not packages and cannot be imported that way. > > Of course this leaves unanswered the question of *how* you are supposed > to import that code. I've never used PythonCard so I can't help > further, but I suggest looking at the documentation and examples > supplied. And perhaps waiting for someone with experience with > PythonCard to answer. > > Gary Herron > > P.S. It is usually a waste of time to tell us that something fails > without telling us *how* it fails. (Cut and paste the error message > always, and the traceback usually.) If you don't, you will usually get > a request to supply that information, and then have wast3ed the time for > one full round of message to the group. Even in this case, I'm only > guessing how it failed for you. > > > I've checked and rechecked to make sure that the spellings are proper > > and that the tools, the codeEditor directory, and codeEditor.py, and > > the class CodeEditor all exists and yet idle keep complaining that it > > can't import from PythonCard.tools. > > > What's going on? (Running Python2.5 under WinXP). > > > Regards, > > -- > >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Thank you very much. I didn't know about the __init__.py requirement. Appreciate it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
