[Tutor] TypeError

[Danny Yoo]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Christopher Spears wrote:

> I entered the following code and got an error:
>
> >>> import UserDict
> >>> a = UserDict()
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<pyshell#3>", line 1, in -toplevel-
>     a = UserDict()
> TypeError: 'module' object is not callable
>
> What does this mean?  I am trying to use the UserDict class, which is is
> located in the UserDict module.

Hi Chris,


Try saying:

    a = UserDict.UserDict()

The reason for this is because a module like "UserDict" can hold more than
a single class.



What you may have done earlier might have been something like:

###
from UserDict import UserDict
a = UserDict()
###

where the 'from' statement allows us to pull a single thing out of a
module.


Hope this helps!