[Tutor] Re: Newbie OOP Question.(diff between function, module and class)

[SA]

On 6/10/02 12:26 PM, "Skip Montanaro" <skip@pobox.com> wrote:

> 
>   SA> One last question, sorry if this is very basic but I feel these
>   SA> terms need better definitions for newbies like me (the only other
>   SA> languages I have experience with are Qbasic and HTML) what is a
>   SA> namespae? Is that analagous to pwd of the program? For instance, if
>   SA> the program is currently in one are of the script doing work, would
>   SA> that be considered the namespace?
> 
> Yes, it is more or less like the filesystem hierarchy.  In the current
> directory, a reference to "blue.txt" would reference a file in the current
> directory.  One significant difference is that Python's module/package
> system doesn't have a syntax for referring to the current module's parent
> (no "..").
Ahh. Now that may prove interesting. Would it be beneficial to make a
reserved command like .. That pops you back into the parent namespace?

Thanks.
SA