[Tutor] Help on input error

[dshunick at comcast.net]

Changing the folder to site-packages did the trick. 

Thanks 
David Shunick 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kent Johnson" <kent37 at tds.net> 
To: "David Shunick" <dshunick at comcast.net> 
Cc: tutor at python.org 
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 6:26:19 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Help on input error 

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 7:14 PM, David Shunick<dshunick at comcast.net> wrote: 
> I'm trying to learn Python, but keep running into the erroor message 
> ImportError: no module named area. 
> 
> I created a file area.py in IDLE. I'm using Python 3.1 and Window XP. After 
> saving the file in c:/Python31/Lib/Python Modules/area.py 
> 
> I can run the program using F5. But when I start a new shell, and enter 
> import area, that's when I get the error message. And it's not just this 
> program.I have the same problem with all that I try to import. 


"Python Modules" is not a folder recognized by Python. Try putting the 
file in Python31/Lib/site-packages/area.py 

Kent 
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