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a curious IDLE Error

EP EP at zomething.com
Thu Jan 22 04:22:11 EST 2004 
At 08:02 AM 1/22/2004 +0000, Alan Gauld wrote:
>On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 21:50:01 -0800, EP <EP at zomething.com> wrote:
>
> > I opened a new Python shell from the instance of IDLE editor where my
> > module was open and tried the raw_input():
> >
> >  >>> someFile=raw_input("enter:  ")
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >    File "<pyshell#36>", line 1, in ?
> >      someFile=raw_input("enter:  ")
> > TypeError: 'tuple' object is not callable
> >
>
>This is a long shot but is it possible that you used raw_input as
>the name of a variable somewhere. Thus you are trying to call
>that variable (which apparently holds a tuple!).
>
>Try doing a text search for raw_input in your module code.
>
>Just a thought.


I thought it might have been something like that as well, but I checked all 
my variable names (and I was only importing the string module).

The strange behavior was that the module worked, just not in an IDLE shell 
opened up out of the same instance I created the module in.
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