[Mailman-Users] Fwd: Uncaught runner exception

[Mark Sapiro]

On 3/14/19 8:14 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Lothar Schilling writes:
> 
>  > > What do you get if in that Python you do
>  > >
>  > > import string
>  > > lowercase
> 
> I think this should be 'string.lowercase'.
> 
>  > import string
>  > 
>  > lowercase
>  > Traceback (most recent call last):
>  >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>  > NameError: name 'lowercase' is not defined
> 
> This is what I would expect.  I'm not sure why Mark got something
> different (he may have previously done 'from string import *').  We
> apologize for the inaccuracy.


Yes, this was definitely an error on my part. I had initially done

from string import lowercase

but I wanted to see where 'string' came from so I did `import string` so
I could get that and thel when I did 'lowercase' instead of
'string.lowercase', it worked.

I apologize for the confusion.

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