Python relative import of an importable module not working
Question: I need to use the function MyFormatIO which is a part of the neo library. I
can successfully import neo and neo.io BUT I cannot use the MyFormatIO
function. `import neo.io` doesn't spit out any errors but `from neo.io import
MyFormatIO` returns `NameError: name 'MyFormatIO' is not defined`. How can
this be if MyFormatIO is a part of neo.io? I am running python2.7 on CentOS.


Answer: MyFormatIO is not a class in neo.io.

<http://pythonhosted.org/neo/io.html#module-neo.io>

> One format = one class
>
> The basic syntax is as follows. If you want to load a file format that is
> implemented in a generic MyFormatIO class:
>

>> > > from neo.io import MyFormatIO reader = MyFormatIO(filename =
"myfile.dat")

>
> you can replace MyFormatIO by any implemented class, see List of implemented
> formats

You have to replace 'MyFormatIO' with a class from this list:
<http://pythonhosted.org/neo/io.html#list-of-io>

A quick way to check this kind of thing in the interpreter is with dir.

    
    
    import neo.io
    dir(neo.io)
    

Those are the items that you can import or use from neo.io

