math module

Kalle Svensson kalle at gnupung.net
Thu Jan 10 05:34:54 EST 2002


[gombosk at vas.birosag.hu]
> I have a problem with math module:
> 
> I import math module, because to call exp(x) or sqrt(x) does not work.
> 
> Do I need anything else to do?
> 
> >>> import math
> >>> exp(10)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> NameError: name 'exp' is not defined

To access the names in an imported module, you must prepend the module name:
>>> import math
>>> math.exp(10)
22026.465794806718

Read more about modules, namespaces and import on
http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/node8.html

Peace,
  Kalle
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