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Hello, this is probably a dumb question but I am having hard time in loading classes defined in another file (that has the same directory), into the current file. Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks!

I'm not sure how to do this, but you should change the topic to Question.

If the two files are in the same directory then you just need import script_name without the .py at the end.

The problem that you might be seeing is that the Python Interpreter will only load a module once. So if you change an imported module then you need to force a reload(). For your own modules that you might be editing during development, I strongly recommend that you use this approach:

import import_me
reload(import_me)  # forces a reload of a module that has been modified

Hi. I tried to do what you suggested, but I still get errors that the module cannot be loaded... Can you please post an example? Thanks!

Running this should create a new directory containing two Python scripts that will demonstrate how one script can import another.

import datetime, os
script_dict = {
    'import_me' : '''import sound, time
for i in xrange(7):
    sound.play_effect('Explosion_{}'.format(i+1))
    time.sleep(0.5)''',
    'importer' : 'import import_me ; reload(import_me)' }
now = datetime.datetime.today().strftime('%Y_%m_%d_%H_%M_%S')
dir_name = '{}_{}'.format(__file__[:-3], now)  # [:-3] strips off the trailing .py
os.mkdir(dir_name)
for script in script_dict:
    with open('{}/{}.py'.format(dir_name, script), 'w') as out_file:
        out_file.write(script_dict[script])
print('Now run {}/importer.py'.format(dir_name.rpartition('/')[2] or dir_name))

Running importer.py will cause it to play the sounds from import_me.py. If you comment out the call to reload() then the sounds will not play after they have been imported once.

Thanks for sharing the code with me. I successfully run it, but I still have problem importing classes.

Here is the file to be imported (named import_me.py):

class myclass (object):
    def ___init__(self):
        self.hi = 'say hello'   
    def action(self):
        return 'hello there'

And here's my main.py file (for which I build a simple UI with a label and a button, and I link the action with the button):

import ui
import import_me; reload(import_me)
def buttonPressed(sender):
    v=sender.superview
    c = myclass()
    v['label1'].text = c.action()
v = ui.load_view('main')
v.present()

What am I doing wrong?

Replace c = myclass() with c = import_me.myclass()

Alternatively try from import_me import myclass

worked perfectly!

One more caution... Your init() method starts with three underscores instead of two so it will never be called.