[Tutor] Can't use NNTP?

Remco Gerlich scarblac@pino.selwerd.nl
Fri, 15 Dec 2000 17:31:10 +0100


On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 11:14:23AM -0500, Voitenko, Denis wrote:
> I am trying to connect to an NNTP server as follows:
> 
> import nntplib
> news = NNTP('news.man.torun.pl') # news.man.torun.pl is a public server
> 
> and at this point I get an error:
> 
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
> NameError: NNTP
> >>> 
> 
> what is wrong?

Something really simple: it should read

news = nntplib.NNTP('news.man.torun.pl')

You import a module, then you can call things inside it with
'modulename.element'.

-- 
Remco Gerlich