[Tutor] Error when trying to use classes

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Feb 7 14:01:00 EST 2017


On 07/02/17 15:34, Rafael Skovron wrote:

> My general workflow is I edit in vim, then invoke python3 interpreter,
> import the module and try to use the Class and methods from the class.
> 
> For example, importing customer.py and assigning this object yields:
> 
>>>> rafael = Customer('rafael',100.0)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> NameError: name 'Customer' is not defined

You didn't show us the import but I'm guessing
you just did

import customer

In that case you need to reference the module:

rafael = customer.Customer(....)

HTH
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