Question

I have this code:

 class API(object):

        def __init__(self):
            self.baseuri = "http://api.xxx.xxx"
            self.cj = cookielib.CookieJar()
            self.cp = urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(self.cj)
            self.opener = urllib2.build_opener(self.cp)

the error is: NameError: global name 'HTTPCookieProcessor' is not defined How come?
P.S.:

 >>> a = api.API()
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
      File "C:\Python27\lib\lib\xxxxx\api.py", line 9, in __init__
        self.cp = urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(self.cj)
    NameError: global name 'HTTPCookieProcessor' is not defined

Answer 1

The answer is probably contained in the three or so lines that got cut from the top of your api.py file when you pasted the code in your question. If I had to guess, I’d say they looked something like:

import cookielib
import urllib2
# <blank line>

Though I wouldn’t be surprised if the import urllib2 line was actually something different, which is causing the issue somehow. If that’s the case, try replacing whatever you have with just import urllib2; otherwise can you post the full file?