Gadfly or gadfly or Gadfly.gadfly() or _?

[Tim Roberts]

"Eric @ Zomething" <eric at zomething.com> wrote:

>
>My interest was piqued enough to try Gadfly, but I find myself struggling to install it, a new problem for this newB.  Not sure if any of this is the distribution's "fault" or just my lack of understanding of Python:
>
>1) I notice there is no py file named "gadfly.py".  How does 
>Python find and define the namespace?

The gadfly directory probably has a file called __init__.py.  That turns
the directory into a "module" which can be imported.

>2) I have installed the files in this directory under a Windows XP OS:
>  C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\Gadfly
>3) "import gadfly", as shown in the docs, returns an ImportError
>4) "import Gadfly" does not return any errors.  Is this because of
>the capitalization of the directory name?

Yes.  Windows XP doesn't care, but Python does.  Try renaming the directory
to "gadfly", and the results should be happier.
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