On Aug 11, 2:41 pm, Johannes Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello group, > > I'm having a seemingly simple problem. I want to generate a hierarchy of > modules, like this one: > > GenerationScripts/ > GenerationScripts/dhcp > GenerationScripts/bind9 > > And the files: > > GenerationScripts/dhcp/__init__.py > GenerationScripts/bind9/generator.py > GenerationScripts/bind9/__init__.py > GenerationScripts/mastergen.py > GenerationScripts/__init__.py > > All packages (bind9, dhcp) should inherit from the master generator > "mastergen". > > I'm at the very beginning: > > $ cat GenerationScripts/__init__.py > import bind9 > #import dhcpd > > $ cat GenerationScripts/bind9/__init__.py > import GenerationScripts.bind9.generator > > $ cat GenerationScripts/bind9/generator.py > from GenerationScripts import mastergen > > class generator(mastergen): > def __init__(self): > print "init bind9 generator"
mastergen is a module, so you can't subclass it. Try changing the import line to: from GenerationScripts.mastergen import mastergen BTW, the error message is misleading, and it seems like it'd be a common error. Maybe it deserves a special case error message. (I.e. if the call to metaclass.__init__ raises TypeError, check to see if it's a module and raise a better error message.) Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
