Defining class files

[John J. Lee]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Neil Benn wrote:
[...]
> >>> YourClass
> <module YourClass at 2584541>
>
>     The text file is saved as YourClass.py - is this the problem, should
> class files have different terminaters in their filename??
[...]

The module name comes from the name of the file it is saved in.
YourClass.py gives you a module called YourClass.  This is fine -- using
the same name for both class and module is common practice (although not
when the module name includes the word 'class'!) -- but you'll have to
use:

import YourClass

foo = YourClass.YourClass()


or this:

from YourClass import YourClass

foo = YourClass()


to get at the class inside the module.


John