On Feb 4, 10:47 am, Catherine Heathcote <catherine.heathc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Firstly hi, I don't know any of you yet but am picking up Python and > will be lurking here a lot lol. I am a hobbiest coder (did 3 out of 4 > years of a comp tech degree, long story) and am learning Python, 'cos I > saw some code and it just looks a really nice language to work with. I > come from C++, so I am bound to trip up trying to do things the wrong way! > > I have been working with Project Euler to get the hang of Python, and > all goes well. I have an idea for a small project, an overly simplistic > interactive fiction engine (well more like those old choose your own > adventure books, used to love those!) that uses XML for its map files. > The main issues I see so far is the XML parsing (I should pick that up > ok, I have a blackbelt in google-foo), but more importantly splitting > code files. > > In C++ I would obviously split .cpp and .h files, pairing them up and > using #include. How do I do this in Python? I see that you don't tend to > split logic from defenition, but how do I keep different classes in > different files? My google-fu fails me so far.
You just use the keyword "import". Here's a goofy example: 1) foo.py contains a class called Foo 2) bar.py contains a script that imports Foo: import foo # create an instance of the Foo class myFoo = foo.Foo() I hope that was clear. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
