Please reply to the whole list, using Reply All, rather than directly to me or anyone else, unless you want the conversation to take place off-list (unless you have a good reason to do so, we discourage this, because then future people cannot benefit from our advice.) Kent has already indicated the issue, you are not putting your modules in the proper location.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 9:22 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dshunick@comcast.net">dshunick@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000">Yes, I can import standard library modules. <br><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Luke Paireepinart" <<a href="mailto:rabidpoobear@gmail.com" target="_blank">rabidpoobear@gmail.com</a>><br>
To: "David Shunick" <<a href="mailto:dshunick@comcast.net" target="_blank">dshunick@comcast.net</a>><br>Cc: <a href="mailto:tutor@python.org" target="_blank">tutor@python.org</a><br>Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 6:02:42 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific<br>
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Help on input error<br><br>Can you import other (Standard library) modules? or can you not import anything?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:14 PM, David Shunick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dshunick@comcast.net" target="_blank">dshunick@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I'm trying to learn Python, but keep running into
the erroor message ImportError: no module named area.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I created a file area.py in IDLE. I'm using Python
3.1 and Window XP. After saving the file in c:/Python31/Lib/Python
Modules/area.py</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I can run the program using F5. But when I start a
new shell, and enter <em>import area, </em>that's when I get the error message.
And it's not just this program.I have the same problem with all that I try to
import.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I hope someone can help!</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Dave</font></div></div>
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