question about imports in a class

[Rhodri James]

On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:18:49 -0000, J <dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 16:57, Diez B. Roggisch <deets at nospam.web.de>  
> wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>
> So good practice (I'm doing this for real as well as for my own
> education) would be:
>
> sysinfo.py:
>
> import os
>
> class ClassA():
>     sysinfo.os.walk()
>
> class ClassB():
>     sysinfo.os.walk()

Nope.  Good practice would be:

import os

class ClassA(object):
     os.walk()

class ClassB(object):
     os.walk()

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