building string for __import__()

[Agent Drek]

On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Adrian Eyre wrote:

|Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 10:18:22 -0000
|From: Adrian Eyre <a.eyre at optichrome.com>
|To: Agent Drek <drek at MonsterByMistake.Com>, python-list at python.org
|Subject: RE: building string for __import__()
|
|> ImportError: No module named /mnt/somewhere0/foo1/flub2/TARGET
|
|Assuming PYTHONPATH contains /mnt
|
|import and __import__ take the format: somewhere0.foo1.flub2.TARGET
|
|Although if you want to execute a script, you can use:
|
|execfile("/mnt/somewhere0/foo1/flub2/TARGET")
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Hmmm...
my problem was that the variable that I built up with:

dirdata = {
    'somewhere':   '0',
    'foo':         '1',
    'flub':        '2'
}

FILE =  "/mnt/somewhere" + dirdata['somewhere'] + \
        "/foo" + dirdata['foo'] \
        "/flub" + dirdata['flub'] \
        "/TARGET"

would give me the import error but just typing it manually into the
interpreter would work fine. I'll try the . notation.

>>> c = import__("/typing/in/the/path/by/hand/did/it/TARGET")

execfile(FILE) works well enough however. __import__ just didn't like 
my Object FILE.

I'm happy enough with execfile and was just curious about what I was
doing wrong with __import__

thanks,

	=derek

Monster By Mistake Inc > 'digital plumber'
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