Question

I am writing my PyQt4 program and I manipulate many dictionaries. No problem in the file script itself, but now need to use dictionaries that are not in my file script, and I don’t know how to correctly import and use them to update my “real” dictionaries.

All my dictionaries are declared in my init constructor at the top of my program.

Here is a bit of my program which show a sample dictionary, in a function :

self.dicoMentalRay = { 'projectDirectory' : self.mentalrayProjectDirectory_Text.text(),
'sceneFilename' : self.mentalrayProjectSceneFilename_Text.text(),
'renderer' : self.mentalrayRenderingRenderer_Text.text() }

and here how it is supposed to update after I clicked on a button (in another function) :

self.dicoMentalRay.update(dicoMentalRay2)

The “dicoMentalRay2” is supposed to be in another .py file, in the same directory of my script. I import it well with

import dico

The problem is that I always get the same error :

NameError: global name 'dicoMentalRay2' is not defined

I think the problem is that my “dico.py” is badly written. Indeed, I only write a new dictionary in it, and nothing else, like class or function.

How am I supposed to do ? Thanks !

Answer 1

To use dicoMentalRay2 from dico file, you have to use

from dico import dicoMentalRay2
self.dicoMentalRay.update(dicoMentalRay2)

or

import dico
self.dicoMentalRay.update(dico.dicoMentalRay2)