On 30/10/12 12:00, richard kappler wrote:
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If, however, I save the above in a file named hungry.py, then import
hungry, I get an error, as follows:
import hungry
hungry(96)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in<module>
TypeError: 'module' object is not callable
So what am I missing? Someone do please point out the obvious. ;-)
You have a module called "hungry" and a function called "hungry" inside
that, so to reach the inner "hungry" you need to do this:
import hungry
hungry.hungry(96)
Which is no different from:
import math
math.cos(0.96)
Python will never try to guess which inner function you want when you
call a module directly, not even if the inner function has the same
name as the module. You must always explicitly tell it which inner
function you want.
An alternative is this:
from hungry import hungry # like "from math import cos"
hungry(96)
--
Steven
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