What's wrong with me/Python ?

[Don O'Donnell]

Erik Max Francis wrote:
> 
> Alexander Stirzel wrote:
> 
> > I just wrote a small script for killing some hanging netscape
> > processes,
> > the source is listed below.
> > Now if I run this script I get this error message:
> >
> > 8<----------- error message -----------------------------
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/sbin/netscape-killer.py", line 11, in ?
> >     splitted = string.split(line)
> > NameError: There is no variable named 'string'
> > 8<----------- error message -----------------------------
> >
> > Now here's the script:
> >
> > 8<------------ script -----------------------------------
> > #!/usr/local/bin/python
> > import os
> > import time
>         ...
> 
> > What did I do wrong? And why does Python want a "variable named
> > 'string'" here?
> 
> Because you're referencing `string' and it's never seen the variable
> before.  You're missing an `import string' statement at the top.
> 

Or better yet, with version 2.0, use the string method:

	splitted = line.split()

and you don't have to remember to import the string module. 
It should be faster as well, since the string functions are 
now implemented as calls to the string methods.

/Don