[Tutor] creation of a module

[Cedric BRINER]

> > hi,
> > 
> > 1)
> > I'm trying to create my _first_ own module. I've decided to write each class into a separate file.
OB> > 
> > /MyModule|-bunch.py
> >          |-a.py
> >          |-b.py
> >          `-c.py
> 
> You also need MyModule/__init__.py to signal to Python that MymModule is a package. (Actually you 
> are creating a package containing several modules.)
thank you to enlight me.. :).. that I was creating a package containing many modules. Maybe I'm smarter than I thought. 

> > {a,b,c}.py contains respecetively classA,classB,classC more some unittest
> > and bunch.py will contains some usefull function using the class{A,B,C}
> > 
> > I'd like that when I import MyModule (`import MyModule')OB
> >  I'll see from it:
> > MyModule.classA
> >         .classB
> >         .classC
> > 	.<function1 in numch.py>
> >         .<function2 in numch.py>
> >         ...
> > without seeing MyModule.{a,b,c}
> 
> In MyModule/__init__.py put
> from MyModule.a import classA
> from MyModule.b import classB
> from MyModule.c import classC

I've done it. But is it normal that I'see also the filename
MyModule.classA
        .classB
        .classC
        .a  <---- not expected
        .b  <--'
        .c  <-'
        .<function1 in numch.py>
        .<function2 in numch.py>
can I not import them ?

> This creates package-level attributes for the classes.
> 
> > 2) does someone now how to do this:
> > x=3
> > with a function like:
> > assign('x',3)
> 
> Can you say why you want to do this? It is possible but generally it is better to use a dict:
> values = {}
> values['x'] = 3
> 
the idea was to automate the :
from MyModule.a import classA
from MyModule.b import classB
from MyModule.c import classC

with a loop
<snip>
lclassname=['classA', 'classB', 'classC']
#in the future I can even automate the creation of classname list
for classname in lclassname:
  #filename='a', classname='classA'
  filename=classname.replace('class','').lower()
  #from filename import classname 
  #can't do this
  module=__import__(filename, gloabls(), locals(), [classname])
  classDefinition=getattr(module,classname)
  assign(classname,classDefinition)
<snip>


In this way, when I'll do an
import FWobs
I'll get:
MyModule.classA
        .classB
        .classC
        .<function1 in numch.py>
        .<function2 in numch.py>


thanks for your help !  

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Cedric BRINER