On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 09:01:17AM -0500, paulf@quillandmouse.com wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jan 2023 08:34:05 -0500 > Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 08:24:11AM -0500, paulf@quillandmouse.com > > wrote: > > > What you wrote triggered something. I'd been following the Python > > > curses docs, which tell you to write, for example, "A_REVERSE". And > > > Python was throwing exceptions. But based on what you wrote, I > > > substituted "curses.A_REVERSE", which works. > > > > > > Problem solved... for now. > > > > I'm a Python novice, but I believe what you're seeing is the > > difference between > > No, here's what happened. I was going along, and I used "A_REVERSE" in > my code, according to the online docs. Exception, didn't recognize the > name. That didn't make sense; this attribute is basic to curses. So I > started investigated versions of Python, ncurses, Python curses, etc. > > But as it turns out, instead of typing "A_REVERSE", I should have > ignored the docs and typed "curses.A_REVERSE". That worked, and > obviated the whole versioning problem. Greg is still right, though: If you say "import curses", then you have to say "curses.A_REVERSE" later on. If you say "from curses import *", then it's "A_REVERSE". The difference between importing a package and importing all of the packages's symbols. What you want to do depends on preferences, taste, name collissions and things. Cheers -- t
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