Ok, the light just went out. I thought I was getting something, but no... I will keep on reading, maybe it will hatch.
Maybe a different approach. What is happening here? (Should this be a new thread?) import tkinter as tk from tkinter import * from tkinter import ttk ------------------------------------------------------------------ Footnote: Mars is the only known planet in our solar system solely inhabited by functioning robots. -----Original Message----- From: Python-list <python-list-bounces+gronicus=sga.ni...@python.org> On Behalf Of Peter J. Holzer Sent: Saturday, November 7, 2020 2:33 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Is there a conflict of libraries here? On 2020-11-07 13:26:30 -0500, Steve wrote: > Ok, I think I see a light in the fog. > > It looks as if I can identify a variable to contain a library. > > Import datetime as dt1 > > I guess that I can have a second variable containing that same library: > > Import datetime as dt2 > > Should I presume that not doing this is what caused the interference > in my code? Not quite. The problem isn't that you imported the library twice, but that you have a library (package/module) and a class of the same name. When you try to import both with that name, only one of them will be visible, since you can't have one name refer to two different things at the same time. >>> import datetime The name datetime now refers to the module datetime: >>> datetime <module 'datetime' from '/usr/lib/python3.8/datetime.py'> >>> id(datetime) 140407076788160 >>> from datetime import datetime Now the name datetime now refers to the class datetime: >>> datetime <class 'datetime.datetime'> >>> id(datetime) 9612160 You can import one or both of them with different names: >>> import datetime as dt_module >>> dt_module <module 'datetime' from '/usr/lib/python3.8/datetime.py'> >>> id(dt_module) 140407076788160 >>> from datetime import datetime as dt_class dt_class <class 'datetime.datetime'> >>> id(dt_class) 9612160 hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer | Story must make more sense than reality. |_|_) | | | | | h...@hjp.at | -- Charles Stross, "Creative writing __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | challenge!" -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list