[sonictmf]

Hey everyone,

So I'm new to python, but i've programmed in java a bit. For class our teacher is having us create a line segment (purely textual, not visual). He has supplied us with the Point abstract data type, and we must use it to create a line segment abstract data type. Now I know that relying on everyone here to code this for me would be cheating, but I was wondering if you could just help me with my constructor, I can't seem to get it to work. Every time I try and create a 'linesegment' I get "name 'LineSegment' is not defined" Please help, below is a bit of my code.

import carpoint #This is where the point class is imported

class LineSegment :
    def __init__(self, pointA, pointB):
        self._firstPoint = pointA
        self._endPoint = pointB

So when I try:

lineseg1 = LineSegment(Point(3,3),Point(1,1))

It tells me that LineSegment is undefined.
Please help, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong

Thanks!

[blackcompe]

I don't see anything wrong with your code that would give that error. Here's what you have and it works fine.

[Simown]

Depends which module (py file) your code is in in relation to making the line segment.

If it's in the same py file it should work fine but otherwise you'll have to import it in one of two ways:

import mymodule
...
lineseg1 = mymodule.LineSegment(Point(3,3),Point(1,1))

from mymodule import LineSegment
...
lineseg1 = LineSegment(Point(3,3),Point(1,1))

Hope that helps.

This post has been edited by Simown: 10 September 2012 - 06:29 AM

[sepp2k]

I see that you imported the Point class qualified (i.e. you did import carpoint, not from carpoint import Point), but you used it unqualified (i.e. Point instead of carpoint.Point). This is wrong and will give you an error about Point not being defined. You need to either change your import statement or your usage of the Point class.

Of course the error message you're getting is about LineSegment, not about Point, so it's not caused by the issue above. But if you did the same thing with LineSegment that you did with Point, that is if your usage of LineSegment happens in another file than where you defined LineSegment, you used a qualified import to import it and then tried to use it without qualification, that would explain your error message.