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Marcin Bobowski
Marcin Bobowski

Reputation: 1765

Python: application with submodules - import doesn't work (NameError: name 'time' is not defined)

Im building a small application. In my main.py I have:

from lib.save_decoded_json import saveJsonToFile
# some code
saveJsonToFile("get_info", outStr)
# some code

in lib folder I have 2 files:

__init__.py
save_decoded_json.py

the last one looks like this:

import time

def saveJsonToFile(folderName, packerJsonData):
    timestr = time.strftime("%Y%m%d-%H%M%S")
    with open(folderName + "/" + timestr + ".json","w") as file:
        for result in extract_json_objects(packerJsonData):
            file.write(json.dumps(result, indent=4, sort_keys=True))
    print('-------------------')
    print(folderName + ' SAVED')
    print('-------------------')

call to saveJsonToFile throws this error:

File "lib/save_decoded_json.py", line 2, in saveJsonToFile
NameError: name 'time' is not defined

Why submodule doesn't import time properly"

Upvotes: 0

Views: 144

Answers (1)

Abbas
Abbas

Reputation: 643

You are only importing the function saveJsonToFile not the whole script so you never imported time.

However, you can import time inside your function. This will work:

def saveJsonToFile(folderName, packerJsonData):
    import time
    timestr = time.strftime("%Y%m%d-%H%M%S")
    with open(folderName + "/" + timestr + ".json","w") as file:
        for result in extract_json_objects(packerJsonData):
            file.write(json.dumps(result, indent=4, sort_keys=True))
    print('-------------------')
    print(folderName + ' SAVED')
    print('-------------------')

Upvotes: 1

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