question about imports in a class

[Diez B. Roggisch]

J schrieb:
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 16:13, J <dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> But why does importing in the init not make os available to every
>> other function in the class?  Do I have to import OS into every
>> function like this:
>>
>> class ClassA():
>>
>>    def func1(self):
>>        import os
>>
>>    def func2(self):
>>        import os
> 
> A little more education and playing around and I'm still not quite
> sure how to do this...
> 
> for the class i'm writing, I want to import os, sys and wmi globally
> for the class...
> if I put the import at the beginning of the class, it just dawned on
> me that perhaps I still have to explicitly call the function by class:
> 
> sysinfo.py
> 
> class myclass():
>     import os
>     def findDMIDecode(self):
>         for r,d,f in myclass.os.walk(args)
> 
> is that correct?

It is correct in the sense that it works, but it is by no means good 
practice.

> 
> How about if I have two classes in sysinfo.py and want to import os
> globally for BOTH classes to use? Same thing?

import os

class A():
    ...

class B():
    ...


That's it.

Diez