Re: [Visualpython-users] VPython-Win-Py2.4-4.beta2.exe

[Jonathan B. <jbr...@ea...>]

On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 13:59 +0100, Dr P H Borcherds wrote:
> I have downloaded VPython-Win-Py2.4-4.beta2.exe (but visual.version = (4,
> 'beta1'))
> 
> My operating system is windows Me (update from windows 98)
> 
> When I import visual as [from visual import *], dir() generates error
> message : see below
> but if I import it as "import visual" dir(visual) works ok

There is a local variable named dir defined in
site-packages/visual/__init__.py (on or about line 38).  Rename it to
_dir, and this won't be a problem.  This has been fixed in CVS, and will
be applied to the next release.

This was my mistake - loops do not have their own scope (or something
like that), and I had forgotten that property.

-Jonathan