[SOLVED] imports issue

[LukeVideo]

Hello again,
I'm trying to import a module to connect to my wifi. i'm using a module because i don't want the ssid or password to be tracked on github

But it don't work in my main.py. In repl it works fine, I import ConnectWifi in both main.py and in the repl prompt and :

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connect to wifi
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 15, in <module>
NameError: name 'ConnectWiFi' isn't defined
MicroPython v1.10-331-ge38c68310-dirty on 2019-05-09; ESP32 module with ESP32
Type "help()" for more information.
>>> import ConnectWifi
>>> ConnectWifi.greetings()
Hellooooo !
>>>

You'll notice the first line is a print statement from these few lines of code :

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import ConnectWifi
try:
  ConnectWifi
except NameError:
  print("no ConnectWifi")
else:
  print("connect to wifi")
  ConnectWiFi.greetings()
  

I'm trying to check if the import failed or not, it seems to pass but then i can't call it. ConnectWifi.greetings fails and the whole file fails.

Am i doing something wrong?

[LukeVideo]

Oh... I was trying to import the file and not the functions within. So it works in repl but in a .py file you should import a class or a function not the file directly...

[jimmo]

You should be able to do exactly what you did in the REPL from main.py

It's just like regular Python. If you have foo.py containing "def bar".

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import foo
foo.bar()

or

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from foo import bar
bar()

[LukeVideo]

well, i'm not sure why it didn't work. I'm not a python expert so i thought it might be because there a just functions in the file and no class ? So i should import the function from the file ?

Anyway this works fine

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from ConnectWifi import connect
connect()

Is the usual import refere to a class named like the file so that python knows what to do ? In my case in the ConnectWifi there is no ConnectWifi class...

[jimmo]

As far as imports go, there's no distinction between classes, functions or just plain old variables.

It just so happens that in the "import foo" case, the "foo" you get looks a bit like a class because you use the "." notation to access its contents.

i e. if this was foo.py

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def bar():
  print('bar')
  
class Thing:
  def baz():
    print('baz')
  
x = 22

then

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import foo

foo.bar()

t = foo.Thing()
t.baz()

print(foo.x)

[LukeVideo]

Thanks jimmo for the example.
i still don't really understand why my

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import foo

foo.bar()

returned foo isn't defined ???

Anyway it's all good now.

Thanks.