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[Andy Gimblett]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 08:52:29PM +1000, Graeme Matthew wrote:

> import Template
> template = Template.Template()
> 
> I cannot get it to instantiate like
> 
> template = Template()

template = Template.Template() is the correct way to do it.

You could do what you want with:

from Template import *
template = Template()

but such "namespace pollution" is generally seen as a bad thing (see
http://py-howto.sourceforge.net/doanddont/doanddont.html for more on
this).  Slightly less harmful would be:

from Template import Template
template = Template()

but really you're doing the right thing anyway - don't knock it.  :-)

-Andy

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