[Tutor] new function and a 3 line program not working

[Jacob S.]

I thought that the '.py ' in this import statement would make the
interpreter think that newline was a package and therefore try to recognize
py as a module in the newline package.

from newline.py import newline

Perhaps you said this to help explain what's going on?
Jacob Schmidt

>
> If so that is the problem. You cannot call newLine() in a separate
> file from the one where you defined it - python doesn't know about it.
> You need to *import* the file where you defined the function, like
> this:
>
> from newline.py import newline
>
> Ah, but reading further in your post and looking at the tutorial text
> you posted, the author does NOT say create a new file. Rather
> he (she?) says (or implies) to just keep on typing the program
> after the function definition in the same file. That way Python
> can read the file including the newline() definition.
>
> HTH,
>
> Alan G.
>
>
> ==========================
>
> The first couple of functions we are going to write have no
> parameters, so the syntax looks like this:
>
> def newLine():
> print
>
> This function is named newLine. The empty parentheses indicate that it
> has no parameters. It contains only a single statement, which outputs
> a newline character. (That's what happens when you use a printcommand
> without any arguments.)
>
> The syntax for calling the new function is the same as the syntax for
> built-in functions:
>
> print "First Line."
> newLine()
> print "Second Line."
>
> <AG - See, no mention of creating a new file after the function
> definition>
>
>
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