On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 10:45 -0800, Jeff Tchang wrote: > Odd issue I am having with class instantiation on Python 2.5.2 (Windows). > > I have a custom module with a few classes in it. The module is named SAML.py. > There is a copy of it in C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\SAML.py. > > Basically when I try to run a python file that tries to create an > instance of the class Subject I get this error: > AttributeError: type object 'SAML' has no attribute 'Subject' > > In SAML.py I have the class... > > class Subject(object): > ... > ... > etc > > However, when I run the same line by line by starting up python it works. > > >> import SAML > >> subject = SAML.Subject("[EMAIL PROTECTED]","EMailAddress") > >>> print subject > <SAML.Subject object at 0x00C94770> > >>> > I've double checked I am loading the correct module by the usage of the -v > flag. > What else should I be checking? > > -Jeff > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Random related question. If you're writing a SAML implementation have you found an XML Signature implementation that works reliably from python? I've had a hell of a time finding something that doesn't segfault and is interoperable with .NET. As far as your problem goes, I would guess that somewhere you've got a class named SAML that's shadowing your module. See the difference in the error messages: Python 2.5.2 (r252, Oct 31 2008, 10:47:40) [GCC 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.1)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import os >>> type( os ) <type 'module'> >>> os.doesnotexist Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'doesnotexist' >>> class os( object ): ... pass ... >>> os.doesnotexist Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> AttributeError: type object 'os' has no attribute 'doesnotexist' -- John Krukoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Land Title Guarantee Company -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list