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From: mwh21 at cam.ac.uk (Michael Hudson)
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Date: 18 Apr 1999 01:09:48 +0100
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Subject: Plugins, or selecting modules to import at runtime
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References: <924379180.825429211@news.intergate.bc.ca> <924385178.948235039@news.intergate.bc.ca>
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Message-ID: <m34smeyek3.fsf@atrus.jesus.cam.ac.uk>
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Gerald Gutierrez <gutier at intergate.bc.ca> writes:
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> Never mind. I just found the module "imp".
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That's waay overkill for what you need; the builtin function
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__import__ will do nicely:
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Python 1.5.2 (#2, Apr 14 1999, 13:02:03) \
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[GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 on linux2
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Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
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>>> __import__("sys")
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<module 'sys' (built-in)>
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>>> s=__import__("sys")
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>>> s
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<module 'sys' (built-in)>
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>>>
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HTH
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Michael
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> Thanks.
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>
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> On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Gerald Gutierrez wrote:
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> >Hi all.
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> >
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> >I'd like to write a program in Python in which the user can select one of
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> >several modules to execute through a function that has the same name in all the
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> >modules. I don't believe "import" lets me pass it a string. There is also
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> >reload(), but the module to reload must be previously imported.
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> >
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> >This is very similar to plugins like that used in Netscape, Photoshop and the
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> >GIMP.
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> >
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> >Can someone please give me a hint?
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> >
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> >Thanks.
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> >
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> >Please forward replies to gutier at intergate.bc.ca.
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