On Jun 19, 7:21 pm, Ulrich Eckhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Dann wrote: > > Let's say I define the class in a module called comms.py. The class > > isn't really going to inherit from any other class (except presumably > > in the most primitive base-class sense, which is presumably automatic > > and implicit in using the class keyword). Let's call the class > > serial_link. So in comms.py I have: > > > class serial_link: > > def __init__(self): > > Try > > Import serial # the pyserial library > > Stop, this can't work. Other than VB, Python actually is case sensitive, so > you must write 'try' and not 'Try' and also 'import' and not 'Import'. > Further, many (all?) statements that cause an indention are usually > terminated with a colon, so like with 'class ..:' and 'def ..:' you also > must use 'try:' and not just 'try'. Fix all these and try again, I guess > this will already help a lot. > > One more thing: you are abusing exceptions. Typically, in such a short > program you only have one try-except pair in the main entry function and > all other code only throws the exceptions. In particular the __init__ > function of a class should always signal errors using exceptions. However, > this is not a strict yes/no question but rather a stylistic one. > > Uli > > -- > Sator Laser GmbH > Geschäftsführer: Thorsten Föcking, Amtsgericht Hamburg HR B62 932
I think it's not that hard to see that it's just a pseudo code -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list