importing
Mark Lawrence
breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Mar 7 12:30:52 EST 2016
On 07/03/2016 17:23, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> Thanks to all who replied to my cry for help; I understand it better
> now. But:
>
> On 07/03/16 16:08, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>> The documentation should tell you what you need to import to make
>> something work. In this case, I would guess that "import
>> tkinter.messagebox" or "from tkinter import messagebox" would be the
>> recommended way to use this module.
>
> Well, I found the tkinter documentation to be sparse in the extreme
> (https://docs.python.org/release/3.1.3/library/tkinter.html), and it
> certainly doesn't go into that sort of detail.
>
> However, more generally, how am I supposed to know that a module is part
> of a package, and needs a "magic" stanza to get a module loaded?
>
> Cheers,
It all depends on whether or not there is an __init__.py file in the
directory, see e.g. http://pythoncentral.io/how-to-create-a-python-package/
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