Using the recommended python parse.com library to wrap their REST api, why does the following occur

Question

Code:

for k in dir(parse_rest.User):
    print parse_rest.User[k]

Error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/home/ntresch/Development/webapp/appcode.py", line 53, in <module>
     for k in dir(parse_rest.User):
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'User'

The docs show the following:

#Users
#You can sign up, log in, modify or delete users as well, using the User object. You sign a user up as follows:

u = parse_rest.User.signup("dhelmet", "12345", phone="555-555-5555")

#or log in an existing user with

u = parse_rest.User.login("dhelmet", "12345")
# Once a User has been logged in, it saves its session so that it can be edited or deleted:

u.highscore = 300
u.save()
u.delete()

I really want to know what all I can do with the user object. This behavior seems wonky.

Answer 1

This was a case of (at the time) out-of-date documentation, fixed as of 3/11/2013 . The way to access the User class is not parse_rest.User but:

from parse_rest.user import User

Answer 2

The answer is don't use that library. My colleague has one we home rolled checked into our source tree and we're planning on releasing one. When we do I will post a link here for completeness. :)