overriding import

[Michael Hudson]

"Rainer Deyke" <root at rainerdeyke.com> writes:

> I am writing a C++ program with embedded python.  I want to redirect
> import commands to read the file from a different source, possibly
> not a true file at all but an entry in a zip file.  How would I do
> this?

I don't know if being embedded offers other ways of doing this, but in
Python code (which should work here), you'd probably want to use
Greg Stein's imputil.py:

   http://www.lyra.org/greg/python/

If you want to override *all* import unconditionally, you can assign
to __builtin__.__import__, but that requires a certain amount of
Python internals knowledge.

HTH,
Michael

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