Python Mapscript :: NameError: global name 'rectObj' is not defined

[Sean Gillies]

On Aug 23, 2004, at 10:42 AM, Bill Hudspeth wrote:

> I am trying to create a rectangle object using Python Mapscript as
> such:
>
> prevExtent = rectObj(self.prev_minx, self.prev_miny, self.prev_maxx,
> self.prev_maxy)
>
> and get the following error message:
>
> NameError: global name 'rectObj' is not defined
>
>
> I have imported the mapscript module - other mapscript objects are
> recognized in different calls throughout my code, so that is not the
> problem.
>
> Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks, Bill
>

Bill,

There's two different styles of using mapscript classes

1. keep mapscript class names inside the 'mapscript' namespace:

     import mapscript
     r = mapscript.rectObj()

2. import names into the global namespace:

     from mapscript import rectObj
     r = rectObj()

I don't recommend 'from mapscript import *'.

cheers,
Sean

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