Newbie question: unexpected diagnostic when subclassing

[John Hunter]

>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Melvaine <jeffm52 at rivernet.com.au> writes:

    Jeff> I think I must be doing something basically wrong, but
    Jeff> ... ???  I'm running Python 2.1 on Windows 98.  I create a
    Jeff> file x.py in which I declare

    Jeff> class x: ...

    Jeff> I then create a file y.py in which I declare

    Jeff> class y(x): ...

    Jeff> When I try to create an instance of y, I get the diagnostic


Your class syntax is find.  At the top of y.py did you
'from x import x'?  'import x' won't do with your syntax

In y.py you either need

from x import x
class y(x): 
   pass

import x
class y(x.x):
   pass

JDH