dynamically load from module import xxx

Gary Duzan mgi820 at motorola.com
Tue Jul 1 12:46:43 EDT 2008


In article <mailman.1019.1214925114.1044.python-list at python.org>,
Neal Becker  <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>What is a good way to emulate:
>
>from module import xxx
>where 'module' is a dynamically generated string?
>
>__import__ ('modulename', fromlist=['xxx'])
>
>seems to be what I want, but then it seems 'xxx' is not placed in globals()
>(which makes me wonder, what exactly did fromlist do?)

   You might want to read what "help(__import__)" tells you. It
sounds like what you want is:

mynamespace['xxx'] = __import__('modulename.xxx', fromlist=['xxx'])

   Seems a bit weird to me, but that's the way it is, and I'm sure
there is a reason for it.

   Good luck.

					Gary Duzan
					Motorola H&NM





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