Import Doesn't Import

Emile van Sebille emile at fenx.com
Thu Oct 16 17:29:14 EDT 2014


On 10/15/2014 5:40 PM, ryguy7272 wrote:
> ImportError: No module named 'urllib2'
> I'm telling Python to import because it doesn't exist and it throws an error.  I don't get it; I just don't get it.  If I'm working with R, I can import thousands of libraries with no errors whatsoever.  With Python, I just get thousands of errors with nothing working whatsoever.  I totally don't understand this language.  Import means import.  Right.  WTF!!!!!

So, maybe Import doesn't mean import -- perhaps you expect import to 
retrieve content from the web and make it importable(1). That's not what 
python's import does. Python's version looks for a local module to import.

I'd suggest starting with the tutorial.

Emile


(1) which would imply execution of arbitrary code.




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