How to write python plug-ins for your own python program?

[Mark Rowe]

On Mar 3, 2005, at 9:33 PM, Simon Wittber wrote:

>> You mean like 'import'? :)
>
> That's how I would do it. It's the simplest thing, that works.
>
> exec("import %s as plugin" % pluginName)
> plugin.someMethod()
>
> where pluginName is the name of the python file, minus the ".py" 
> extension.

A better method would be something along the lines of:

plugin = __import__(pluginName)
plugin.someMethod()

This avoids the potential security problem that `exec' poses as well as 
the need to parse + interpret the string.

Regards,

Mark Rowe
<http://bdash.net.nz/>