Newbie - circular import problem

[Chetan Gadgil]

Try:

> --b.py--
import a
class ClassB(a.ClassA):
    def __init__(self):
        print 'ClassB'
 




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> 
> Can you give me some pointers on resolving this circular 
> inclusion? I've got 
> two classes, in two files:
> 
> --a.py--
> import b
> class ClassA:
>     def __init__(self):
>         print 'ClassA'
> 
> --b.py--
> import a
> class ClassB(ClassA):
>     def __init__(self):
>         print 'ClassB'
>  
> If I try to access ClassB (for example, by firing up python 
> and importing b), I get the error:
> 
>   File "b.py", line 2, in ?
>     class ClassB(ClassA):
>     NameError: name 'ClassA' is not defined
> 
> Could someone explain what is going wrong here? I'm still 
> getting up to speed with python, but, to me, this looks like 
> the import of b is occuring before ClassA has been defined. 
> Is that right? How can I correct this, apart from 
> amalgamating the two into a single file?
> 
> Many thanks for any guidance.
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