About importing classes

Question

'Names of weakly private attributes don't get imported.'

After reading something like this, I made a file with nothing but one dummy class with dummy attributes and dummy methods. Then I tried to import it from another file.

Two things happened:

1. When I tried 'import filexy', there was no exception, but the class was not available at all - 'not defined'!

2. Then I tried 'from filexy import classxy'. Now it worked - but I was able to access everything in the class just fine: Public, weakly and strongly stuff alike, by the names I gave them.

So ... what am I missing here?

Answer 1

3. I tried 'from xyfile import *'. Again, everything was there just fine (although I'm still wondering why just 'import xyfile' doesn't work).

So what exactly is different if I import or don't import a class with differently privatisized (that a word?) attributes? I don't get it...

Answer 2

Did you try filexy.class_name in the code?
Exactly what did you to avail the class?
I don't have access to pc now otherwise I would like to help you.

Answer 3

After some time after the question, you will get it.😁

Answer 4

Roneel, I still don't get it though. ^^'

Answer 5

Roneel, thank you. But I wonder, what would you even help me with? Accomplish LESS? :D

I don't remember now, it's already a while ago, but I believe(d) I read somewhere that weakly private stuff isn't imported when you import, and it didn't really make sense to me.

So I wrote a little test class, putting random stuff in it, some private, some public, some weakly private, saved it to a file, imported it from another file - and could access every single attribute just fine.

Answer 6

Yes! What can I help you? Python will not change nor its syntax.
But I will do a series of experiments and tell if something extraordinary happened. Nothing more