Supply a plugin interface

[Aahz]

In article <75akp8F17g294U1 at mid.dfncis.de>,
Johannes Bauer  <dfnsonfsduifb at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>the GUI application should now browse the plugin directory and read
>those plugin python files and somehow incorporate (i.e. discover what
>modules are there, instanciate, etc.)
>
>How do I do that at runtime with Python?

You might consider using execfile() but probably __import__ works better
for your purposes.  There's also importlib on PyPI, which is the backport
from 2.7.
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