Importing is partially working...

MRAB python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Mon Aug 10 11:48:59 EDT 2015


On 2015-08-10 11:11, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Dwight GoldWinde <Dwight at goldwinde.com> wrote:
>> name = 'Jim'
>> coach = 'Dwight'
>> import importlib
>> sentence = 'Hi, there, ' + name + '. My name is ' + coach + '. I will be
>> your coach today.'
>> from Functions.py import humprint
>> humprint (sentence)
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>
>>   File "Intro.py", line 5, in <module>
>>
>>     from Functions.py import humprint
>>
>> ImportError: No module named 'Functions.py'; 'Functions' is not a package
>>
>>
>>
>> So, it seems like it is accessing the module, but not the function?
>
> You're almost there! But in Python, you don't import something from a
> specific file - you import from a module, and the Python interpreter
> is free to locate that file anywhere that it can. It might be
> implemented in C, and be stored in Functions.so (on Unix-like systems)
> or Functions.dll (on Windows); it might be precompiled and loaded from
> Functions.pyc; it might come from a zip file, or some other form of
> special import source. So all you say is:
>
On Windows, the extension for Python extension DLLs is ".pyd".

> from Functions import humprint
>
> and Python does the rest. Yep, that's all the change you need, and
> your code will most likely work. (I haven't tested it, but it'll
> probably work.)
>




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