Question

I’m just starting out with Python for Google App Engine. I have a file notifications.py, and in here, I will be creating User entities, which are specified in users.py. How can I do this? I’ve tried import users, but I get an error: NameError: global name 'User' is not defined

Answer 1

Oh, I just had this problem too! After you do:

import users

to get User you have to type users.User

Alternatively you could import it like:

from users import User

then reference it as just User but if you do it this way you’ll have to list every bit from users that you want in the following format:

from users import User, Somthingelse, Somthing

If you’re feeling super lazy and you don’t want to type in any prefixes or list all the things you want, just type

from users import *