Accessing global namespace

[Bob Gailer]

At 04:27 AM 10/6/2003, =?iso-8859-9?Q?Tongu=E7?= Yumruk wrote:

>I'm trying to build a completely plug-in based system. One of my
>problems is importing a package dynamically. I'm trying to emulate the
>import command. The __import__() function or imp module doesn't help me
>much because they only return the module.

How about:

modName = 're' # for example
mod = __import__(modName )
exec modName + '=' + mod

>I want to register the module
>with it's name in the current namespace. I can do it by:
>
>         globals()[module_name] = __import__(module_name)
>
>But I don't think it's a good thing to access the global namespace
>directly. I prefer using setattr() but I cannot access the current
>namespace as an object I want something like
>
>         setattr(__main__,__import__(module_name))
>
>Is that possible? I'm using Python 2.1 on Debian Woody
>
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Bob Gailer
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