Beginners question about debugging (import)

[Albert van der Horst]

I'm starting with Python. First with some interactive things,
working through the tutorial,
then with definitions in a file called sudoku.py.
Of course I make lots of mistakes, so I have to include that file
time and again.

I discovered (the hard way) that the second time you invoke
from sudoku.py import *
nothing happens.

There is reload. But it only seems to work with
import sudoku

Now I find myself typing ``sudoku.'' all the time:

x=sudoku.sudoku()
y=sudoku.create_set_of_sets()
sudoku.symbols

Is there a more convenient way?

(This is a howto question, rather difficult to get answered
from the documentation.)

Groetjes Albert



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[Diez B. Roggisch]

I'm starting with Python. First with some interactive things,
working through the tutorial,
then with definitions in a file called sudoku.py.
Of course I make lots of mistakes, so I have to include that file
time and again.

I discovered (the hard way) that the second time you invoke
from sudoku.py import *
nothing happens.

There is reload. But it only seems to work with
import sudoku

Now I find myself typing ``sudoku.'' all the time:

x=sudoku.sudoku()
y=sudoku.create_set_of_sets()
sudoku.symbols

Is there a more convenient way?

(This is a howto question, rather difficult to get answered
from the documentation.)

import sudoku as s

However, I find it easier to just create a test.py and run that from the
shell. For the exact reason that reload has it's caveats and in the end,
more complex testing-code isn't really feasible anyway. If you need to,
drop into the interactive prompt using

python -i test.py

Diez