[Tutor] pyopengl name error

[Rick Pasotto]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 05:11:26PM -0600, VanL wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> If this is too pyopengl-specific, I'll take this question there. 
> However, it seems to actually be a problem with namespaces, so I decided
> to try this group first.
> 
> I installed pyOpenGL.  I can import it, get a listing of available
> functions from dir(), etc.  However, When I try to run the example code
> drawcube.py, I get the following error:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "glut.py", line 69, in OnDraw
>     drawCube()
>   File "drawcube.py", line 3, in drawCube
>     OpenGL.GL.glTranslatef(0.0, 0.0, -2.0);
> NameError: There is no variable named 'OpenGL'
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "glut.py", line 69, in OnDraw
>     drawCube()
>   File "drawcube.py", line 3, in drawCube
>     OpenGL.GL.glTranslatef(0.0, 0.0, -2.0);
> NameError: There is no variable named 'OpenGL'
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "glut.py", line 69, in OnDraw
>     drawCube()
>   File "drawcube.py", line 3, in drawCube
>     OpenGL.GL.glTranslatef(0.0, 0.0, -2.0);
> NameError: There is no variable named 'OpenGL'
> 
> 
> Here is the code throwing the exception:
> 
> 
> '''GLUT rendering context sample
> '''
> from OpenGL.GL import *
> from OpenGL.GLUT import *

You haven't imported OpenGL. Instead you have imported some of the
*contents* of OpenGL. Change your line to

	glTranslatef(0.0, 0.0, -2.0)

and I suspect it will work.

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