Question

I am currently doing a python tutorial, but they use IDLE, and I opted to use the interpreter on terminal. So I had to find out how to import a module I created. At first I tried

import my_file

then I tried calling the function inside the module by itself, and it failed. I looked around and doing

my_file.function

works. I am very confused why this needs to be done if it was imported. Also, is there a way around it so that I can just call the function? Can anyone point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If you wanted to use my_file.function by just calling function, try using the from keyword.

Instead of import my_file try from my_file import *.

You can also do this to only import parts of a module like so :
from my_file import function1, function2, class1

To avoid clashes in names, you can import things with a different name:
from my_file import function as awesomePythonFunction

EDIT:
Be careful with this, if you import two modules (myfile, myfile2) that both have the same function inside, function will will point to the function in whatever module you imported last. This could make interesting things happen if you are unaware of it.