🔒 Import error

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@stone moon

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[ebon raven]

hello!

[stone moon]

Hii

[wraith iron]

Any reason you can't run discord on your PC and just copy and paste the code?

[ebon raven]

work with what youve got

[stone moon]

Dont know my login sadly

[ebon raven]

thats not constructive

[stone moon]

Its fine dw 😭

[ebon raven]

okay so the import keysThingy works

weird

[stone moon]

But keyMaps isnt being recognised

The functions code works when its in the main code file

So it is purely an importing issue

[lament mortar]

you don't know your email login? to reset password

[ebon raven]

hmm

[stone moon]

Its an old account and im not on my own pc rn

[ebon raven]

try doing from keyThingy import keyMaps

its very weird, the only thing i can think of is that its not recognising it as a function

[ebon raven]

wait whats the full error msg?

and can you show the file structure

[stone moon]

Its recognising it as a function, just isnt importing it

[lament mortar]

it's because you have a circular import (I believe)

[stone moon]

Cant you do that?

[ebon raven]

ohhhhhh!

[stone moon]

Omg that was it

[ebon raven]

ohhhhhhhhhhhh

welp good job

you solved it

[stone moon]

Wait it works without needing the Info class??

Or is it just using the Info class because its called in the main code file

[ebon raven]

i mean, keysThingy was pretty useless, it could just have been a function

new modules are for enclosed things that only return stuff and stuff

[lament mortar]

I'm assuming you haven't ran the function yet

[stone moon]

Its gonna be a full list of keys

[lament mortar]

running it will give you a NameError

[ebon raven]

dont do import *, only import what you need and dont import the function you ran it in

[stone moon]

Dont want them cluttering the main file

[lament mortar]

if you get circular imports, then you need factor out the dependency to another module, so you can import it separately, or put it all in one

[stone moon]

Ohhh i see

[stone moon]

Understood 🫡

Enter key works 😁

Tysm

[lament mortar]

any import statement runs the whole file that you are importing (but, the code inside the function is not ran until called, same as having the function defined in the file that it is used in)

[stone moon]

I was thinking that

The only reason you wouldnt want to import all of it would be name clashes, right?

[lament mortar]

it makes it unclear what names are available as well

[stone moon]

Mhm

[lament mortar]

either:

import mod

to namespace it, or:

from mod import a, b, c

[stone moon]

But yeah this has been running me ragged for the last hour 😭 tysm

@lament mortar while youre here can i ask you a question?

[lament mortar]

ok

[stone moon]

I was thinking of just doing an if statement for every individual key when typing

Is there a more efficient way to do that with pygame?

[lament mortar]

I don't know what you're looking to do

[stone moon]

Without using the inbuilt text input, im trying to make a text editor from scratch

[lament mortar]

how does the code inside the if-statements differ?

[stone moon]

Take keyboard inputs
Put whatever character i pressed into the editor

[stone moon]

The character im adding to the text editor

[lament mortar]

that doesn't really answer my question

[stone moon]

Itd be something like:

if key == pygame.K_a:
Put an a on the screen
If key == pygame.K_b:
Put a b on the screen

[stone moon]

Im sorry ig i js dont fully understand

[lament mortar]

ok so, how you draw differs

[stone moon]

Yeah, but for every individual key

Which would be very convoluted

[lament mortar]

you could define 52ish functions for each letter

then map those functions using a dict to the letters

[winged anvil]

heh, coulda just used python -m your_filename

[lament mortar]

there should be some attribute or method which tells you the name of the key from the event, as a string

[winged anvil]

it resolves like 99% of import issues for me

[stone moon]

Wha dat

[winged anvil]

runs your python file as a module

[stone moon]

Pretty sure its just a list of bools

Depending of if the key is pressed or not

[lament mortar]

that doesn't fix circular import issues

[stone moon]

As in the main file?

Yeah that wouldntve fixed the issue

[winged anvil]

fixes them for me

if the situation gets desperate I end up modifying pythonpath

[lament mortar]

I feel like you don't understand what a circular import is

[winged anvil]

module a imports something from module b and vice versa at the same time

[stone moon]

From what ive learnt today, i dont think so

[winged anvil]

i might be wrong

[lament mortar]

where the files are and how they can be found doesn't change the issues you get with that

[winged anvil]

so it may just be my machine lol

I swear it just makes all import related errors vanish

[lament mortar]

circular imports are possible, but they make for confusing code

[winged anvil]

it's obvious

[stone moon]

I did it because i didnt know the imported function could access classes from the main file

[lament mortar]

well, your function doesn't do that

you have an argument called Info

[stone moon]

Yeah that was one of my debugging attempts lol

[stone moon]

Initially, thats what i thought

[lament mortar]

it can't do that

[stone moon]

Mhm yeah i get that now

[lament mortar]

here's a test to see how a circular imports runs.

# a.py
print("a1")
import b
print("a2")
x = 1
print("a3", x)

# b.py
print("b1")
import a
print("b2", a.x)
a.x = 2
print("b3", a.x)

If you have both files, and run a.py, you get this

a1
b1
a1
a2
a3 1
b2 1
b3 2
a2
a3 1

[stone moon]

Wait importing just runs the code from the file?

[lament mortar]

and here's labels for which import they are running at

a1   # original run of `a.py`

b1   # `import b` from a

a1   # `import a` from b
     # skip over `import b`
a2   # continue with `import a` from b
a3 1 # finish `import a` from b

b2 1 # continue `import b` from a
b3 2 # finish `import b` from a

a2   # continue original run of `a.py`
a3 1 # finish original run of `a.py`

[stone moon]

Omg like a year ago i used to convert my code files to text files and use exec() on them 😭😭

[lament mortar]

yeah

and then you get a module object which has the variables as attributes

[dark folio]

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