Can't import shared.SharedService in thrift tutorial
Question: I seem to be mis-understanding something about Apache Thrift. I have it
installed and generated python bindings using the tutorial.thrift file. I
manipulated my `PYTHONPATH` environmental variable to allow me to import from
the generated files. When I import `tutorial.Calculator' it can't
find`shared.SharedService`. Is this a dependency of Apache Thrift or something
I have to define?

    
    
    ericu@eric-phenom-linux:~/tmp$ export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHON:`pwd`/gen-py
    ericu@eric-phenom-linux:~/tmp$ echo $PYTHONPATH
    :/home/ericu/tmp/gen-py
    ericu@eric-phenom-linux:~/tmp$ c
    c: command not found
    ericu@eric-phenom-linux:~/tmp$ cd 
    ericu@eric-phenom-linux:~$ pyhon
    No command 'pyhon' found, did you mean:
     Command 'python' from package 'python-minimal' (main)
    pyhon: command not found
    ericu@eric-phenom-linux:~$ python
    Python 2.7.5 Stackless 3.1b3 060516 (default, Sep 23 2013, 20:17:03) 
    [GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> import tutorial
    >>> tutorial.Calculator
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
    AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Calculator'
    >>> import tutorial.Calculator
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/home/ericu/tmp/gen-py/tutorial/Calculator.py", line 10, in <module>
        import shared.SharedService
    ImportError: No module named shared.SharedService
    >>> 
    


Answer: The SharedService is part of another Thrift IDL file, which is included into
the tutorial.thrift IDL file. Tbus, you have to generate the code for the
Shared service as well. The easiest way is to call the Thrift compiler with
the `-r` option ("recursive") which will generate code for the passed IDL file
and all included dependencies.

The tutorial pages are indeed misleading here. If you want to file a JIRA
ticket, please do.

