On Jul 24, 3:44 am, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this- cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:33:55 -0700, Dummey wrote: > > I am having the hardest time trying to find documentation on proper use > > of the 'as' keyword (aside from . I initially thought that I would be > > allowed to do something such as: > > > import shared.util as util > > > The as statement seems to be causing a lot of ''module' object has no > > attribute'. Is it safe to assume that this is not the way to use it? > > It works for me. > > >>> import math as spam > >>> spam > > <module 'math' from '/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload/mathmodule.so'>>>> import > email.mime.text as ham > >>> ham > > <module 'email.mime.text' from '/usr/lib/python2.5/email/mime/text.pyc'> > > My guess is that you are trying to import individual objects from a > module using the package dot notation: > > >>> import math.sin as eggs > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > ImportError: No module named sin > > -- > Steven
I was being an idiot and doing a circular import. I erroneously thought it was the "as" part of the statement. For some reason, removing the "as" part of the statement remove/delayed the error from popping up which made me thought it was the culprit. Thanks for the help. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
