Interesting, I believe I have had this expressed to me before though
it clearly has not sunken in.
Thanks for the clarification.
Cheers,
Brandon
On Dec 17, 2006, at 8:55 AM, Alex Holkner wrote:
Brandon N wrote:
Thanks, that seems to be the solution.
Interestingly, perhaps this is a Python feature that I am unaware
of but this seems strange to me:
>>> import ctypes
>>> ctypes.util.find_library
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'util'
>>> from ctypes.util import find_library
>>>
Is there something unique about the util module in ctypes?
No, this is normal for Python -- you must import a module to use it
(not just its package). Pygame actually does a trick with its sub-
modules, which is probably what's causing the confusion. For
example, you can do
import pygame
pygame.display.something(...)
This works because in pygame/__init__.py is something along the
lines of:
import pygame.display
which brings "display" into the module namespace. Most packages I
know of don't do this trick -- you must import the packages you
want explicitly.
Cheers
Alex.
