On Jan 8, 2:45 pm, Fencer <no.i.d...@want.mail.from.spammers.com> wrote: > On 2010-01-08 04:40, John Machin wrote: > > > > >> For example: > >> >>> from lxml.etree import ElementTree > >> >>> ElementTree.dump(None) > >> Traceback (most recent call last): > >> File "<console>", line 1, in<module> > > > lxml.etree is a module. ElementTree is effectively a class. The error > > message that you omitted to show us might have given you a clue. > > But I did show the error message? It's just above what you just wrote. I > try to include all relevant information in my posts.
<excerpt> Traceback (most recent call last): File "<console>", line 1, in <module> Also, can I access those items ... </excerpt> Error message should appear after line starting with "File". Above excerpt taken from google groups; identical to what shows in http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general ... what are you looking at? With Windows XP and Python 2.5.4 I get: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> AttributeError: 'builtin_function_or_method' object has no attribute 'dump' > It turns out I no longer want to access anything in there but I thank > you for your information nontheless. You're welcome -- the advice on _methods is portable :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
