special case loading modules with imp

[Steven Taschuk]

Quoth Erendil at aol.com:
  [...]
> I need my plugin module to use imp to load that string of code as a module. 
  [...]
> So, I just want to switch from using real files to being able to use strings. 
> The goal is to get a module object that I can place in an array.

I was going to suggest StringIO, but it turns out imp.load_module
wants a real file, not merely something file-like.

However, you can always do it by hand:

    >>> import imp  
    >>> sourcecode = 'def foo(x): return 11*x' 
    >>> mod = imp.new_module('foo')
    >>> exec sourcecode in mod.__dict__
    >>> mod.foo(16)
    176

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Steven Taschuk                staschuk at telusplanet.net
"I tried to be pleasant and accommodating, but my head
 began to hurt from his banality."   -- _Seven_ (1996)