[Newbie:]Importing modules from different files

[gtnorton at my-deja.com]

In article <7r8g0i$mpf$1 at news1.tele.dk>,
  "Jesper Hertel" <jh at cddk.dk> wrote:
> You have to put a file called "__init__.py" into the new directory.
This
> makes the directory a Python package.
>
> Let's say the name of the new directory is "spam". When you use
"import
> spam", you import the contents of the __init__.py file as a module. If
you
> put a file, e.g. "mymodule.py", inside the spam directory, you can
import
> this module using "import spam.mymodule" or "from spam import
mymodule" -
> but again, this only works if you created the (possibly empty) file
> "__init__.py" in the "spam" directory.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Jesper Hertel
>
                                  Thanks Jesper.I could not find any
answer to this in "Learning Python".God, ship the PythonWin book!!!!!!!


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