William Miner wrote:
I’m relative new to python and I puzzled by the following strange (to
me) behavior. I was taking pieces from two old scripts to build a new
one. When I began to debug it I got the following error message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File
"/Users/williamminer/ex2gen/ex2gen-3.0.5/src/ScriptDev/run_ex2gen_scan.py",
line 38, in <module>
if re.search('varm',line):
AttributeError: 'function' object has no attribute 'search'
This had worked in the previous script but not the new one. I noticed
that the new script had an additional line at the beginning (line 3)
#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys, math, os, shutil, commands, re, mpmath
from mpmath import *
When I deleted this line, the script ran. Why did the line
from mpmath import *
Trash the search function fro the regular expression module?
I’m running Python 2.6.2 on Mac running OS 10.6.3.
When you write:
from mpmath import *
you're importing all the 'public' names (by which I mean those not
starting with '_') from the mpmath module.
The mpmath module happens to contain a function called 're', so 're'
will now refer to that function instead of the re module.
That's why using "import *" is usually a bad idea.
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