Hi,

I have tried numerous times to get Pyata to work but I have failed.

I have followed the "instructions" but they are all over the place. I have ensured that PD is executable from the command line. I tried to download as suggested (svn checkout http://pyata.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ pyata-read-only) but that failed.

So I downloaded the source files and found a folder with the "config.properties" in it and put that in a new folder on my desktop. Inside this config file you have to change the PD_DIR which isn't there, so I guessed it was this. (PD_DIR="/Applications/Pd-0.49-1.app").

After all this I tried to run the example.pd file but it says "pd = Pd()
TypeError: 'module' object is not callable".

Please help if you can!!

This error statement TypeError: 'module' object is not callable is raised as you are being confused about the Class name and Module name. The problem is in the import line . You are importing a module, not a class. This happend because the module name and class name have the same name .

If you have a class "MyClass" in a file called "MyClass.py" , then you should import :

from MyClass import MyClass

In Python , a script is a module, whose name is determined by the filename . So when you start out your file MyClass.py with import MyClass you are creating a loop in the module structure.

In Python, everything (including functions, methods, modules, classes etc.) is an object , and methods are just attributes like every others. So,there's no separate namespaces for methods. So when you set an instance attribute, it shadows the class attribute by the same name. The obvious solution is to give attributes different names.