Re: [Visualpython-users] Is there anyway to uninstall vPython?

[Martin C. <cos...@wa...>]

On 26/08/12 20:48, M Hartman wrote:
> That's what I'm using is PyCharm and it seems to be so much better than
> Eclipse/PyDev, at least for a beginner. Anyway, is that the whole
> library in /Lib/site-packages/visual? Does it install anything somewhere
> else? Also, I see the visual directory but for some reason, I cannot
> import anything from this directory, as I get errors in PyCharms
> built-in console. This is the particular error:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "C:/Users/airspoon/PycharmProjects/goo/vis.py", line 1, in <module>

Is "vis.py" the name of your program? As it appears, this is a bad idea, 
because vpython has a module named "vis" (in .../site-packages/vis/). 
This can lead to confusion.

>      from visual import *
>    File "C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\visual\__init__.py", line 1, in
> <module>
>      from .visual_all import *
>    File "C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\visual\visual_all.py", line 1, in
> <module>
>      from vis import version
>    File "C:\Users\airspoon\PycharmProjects\goo\vis.py", line 3, in <module>

Here is the confusion. Instead of importing the "vis" module, which 
defines box, it opens your vis.py. Box is then undefined.

>      floor = Box (pos=(0,0,0), length=4, height=0.5, width=4,
> color=color.blue)
> NameError: name 'Box' is not defined

-- 
Martin