Re: [Tutor] question 1

2014-09-20 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Hi Clayton, and welcome. My responses are interleaved between your questions below. On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 03:20:09PM -0700, Clayton Kirkwood wrote: > I'm ramping slowly unfortunately. How does one go about knowing which module > to import to make certain functions work? Experience, practice, r

Re: [Tutor] question 1

2014-09-20 Thread Danny Yoo
>> Secondarily, why can you import a module without it importing all of its >> daughters? > > The act of importing a module is "recursive": if you import a module, > and that module itself has import statements, then Python will do the > import of the child modules too. And so forth. Hi Deb, Oh!

Re: [Tutor] question 1

2014-09-20 Thread Danny Yoo
On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Clayton Kirkwood wrote: > I’m ramping slowly unfortunately. How does one go about knowing which module > to import to make certain functions work? I have a read() that fails because > there is no definition for it. Specific details may help here. Can you tell us

[Tutor] question 1

2014-09-20 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
I'm ramping slowly unfortunately. How does one go about knowing which module to import to make certain functions work? I have a read() that fails because there is no definition for it. I am using the Wing IDE. I have traversed much of the developer's guide and can't find any certainty. Secondar