Re: using someone elses' jar file

Don't import *.  Either list the classes you want explicitly,
or just import the package and use the package to qualify the
class names.


ytcm47-jythonuserslist@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I am attempting to use JFreeChart.
>  
> My source file is named "test1".  test1 works fine until I add the following line:
>  
>        from JFreeChart.jfree.chart.ChartFactory import * 
>  
> The path above is to the ChartFactory.java file that resides beneath my <classpath> as determined by sys.path.  It resides in:  <classpath>\JFreeChart\jfree\chart
>  
> Jython responds with:  ImportError: cannot import name test1
>  
> How should an external file be referenced so that it can be used in jython?
>  
> [Note:  I attempted to understand pathing by searching for "javax" but none of the instances I found on my harddrive were in my "sys.path".  So, now I am really confused.  I figured that if I could figure out how it is that I can access javax.swing, etc., that I could model my call to jreechart the same way.  But I can't figure that out yet either.)
>  
> Can someone please help me understand how all of this works so that I can then successfully use other jar files?
>  
> Thank you
>
>  


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