Need clue with import hackery

[Gordon McMillan]

[posted and mailed]

Richard Jones wrote: 

> In the roundup project, I (possibly foolishly) decided to make the
> roundup instances python packages. 

I'd quibble with that "possibly" :-).

[snip]

> The roundup library code, when asked to do something, is passed the 
> instance_home "/home/roundup/issue_tracker". It does:
> 
>    path, instance = os.path.split(instance_home)
>    sys.path.insert(0, path)
>    try:
>        instance = __import__(instance)
>    finally:
>        del sys.path[0]

Which means that roundup will not work with freeze, mac's 
BuildApplication, Installer or py2exe.

If these roundup extensions (is that a fair characterization?) 
were installed as subpackages of roundup, then they might be
workable.

Your later post (using imp.load_module or imp.load_package) is 
pure poison for these tools. 

Don't know anything about imp.load_package, but imp.load_module
is sort of equivalent to:

if sys.modules.has_key('mymodule'):
    reload(mymodule)
else:
    import mymodule

so I'd be careful of side effects in normal Python, too.

 
- Gordon