HOW TO Create new module from source text

[Chris Gonnerman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Oren Tirosh" <oren-py-l at hishome.net>


> On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 11:08:34PM -0500, Chris Gonnerman wrote:
> > I know I've done this before but darned if I can figure out
> > how.  I need to load a block of source text and convert it
> > into a module.  I can't just use import because the name 
> > being imported may match a builtin module.
> 
> import new, sys
> mod = new.module('modname')
> exec sourcestring in mod.__dict__
> sys.modules['modname'] = mod
> 
> You can also use execfile(filename, mod.__dict__) instead of exec.

Thank you!  This is precisely what I needed!

Chris Gonnerman -- chris.gonnerman at newcenturycomputers.net
http://newcenturycomputers.net