Problem running NNTP example from docs.

Remco Gerlich scarblac-spamtrap at pino.selwerd.nl
Sat Apr 29 16:50:27 EDT 2000


Arcady Genkin wrote in comp.lang.python:
> I'm very new to Python, and was trying to run the example from
> documentation to nntplib library. I get an error when I try to
> instantiate NNTP object.
> 
> ,----
> | >>> import nntplib
> | >>> s = NNTP('news')
> | Traceback (innermost last):
> |   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> | NameError: NNTP
> `----
> 
> Could somebody point out what I am missing?

You have imported the module nttplib; to use the object NNTP within it, you
write nntlib.NNTP. Ie,

s = nntplib.NNTP('news')

(have never used that lib myself, but this is probably it)
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