[Tutor] help ['import' failing?]

[Danny Yoo]

On 8 Oct 2001, Damian Coughlan wrote:

>           not to go over covered ground but the docviewdoc is in
> lowercase and is not the module Docviewdoc as shown in line 5
> statement saying

> from docviewdoc import Docviewdoc 

Is docviewdoc.py something that you've written, or is a package that
someone else has written?  Also, is the file literally 'docviewdoc.py', or
is there some capitalization in the file name?  Computers today are
designed to be fussy, so this detail might matter, silly as it is.


You may want to check to see if 'docviewdoc.py' is in the same directory
as the rest of your program.  If not, then it becomes difficult for Python
to figure out where to look for docviewdoc.  It'll hunt in directories
listed in an environment variable called "PYTHONPATH", but then, it'll
give up, since hunting through hard drive can get expensive.

Let's find where docviewdoc.py is actually located on your computer first.  
Can you show where it's located on your computer?


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