Importing a class, please help...

[Xavier Morel]

Jorgen Grahn wrote:
 > You are rude to an obvious newbie here ... please keep in mind that 
today's
 > stupid newbies are tomorrow's Python professionals.
 >
I didn't mean to be rude and apologize if that's the way it came out.

> Maybe he /is/ running Jython and failed to explain that properly?
 >
No, he explicitely stated that he's using Python 2.4 (I'm pretty sure 
Jython's latest release is 2.1) and SPE (which didn't handle Jython last 
time I tried it)

> If I
> understand things correctly, jar files are not tied to Java but to the java
> bytecode format -- which Java and Jython share.
> 
Yes, it's used to store/package compiled java classes (.class bytecode 
files) and various metadata associated to the classes (resources, ...) 
and therefore tied to the bytecode (or the JVM) indeed.