Referencing module.instance

[Ben Finney]

Gnarlodious <gnarlodious at gmail.com> writes:

> What I am doing is importing modules that have an identical instance
> name.

Best to fix that, then.

> import Grid

That's a poorly-named module. PEP 8 recommends module names be all
lowercase.

> Grid has its instance:
>
> Grid.Grid()

And this is the reason: PEP 8 recommends class names be named with
TitleCase, so they're distinguishable from module names.

So the above should be:

    import grid
    grid.Grid()

> for page in self.allowedPages:
>    setattr(self, page, __import__(page))

For completeness, I'll note that the function name would be PEP 8
compatible as ‘allowed_pages’.

> The problem is that the attribute name needs to reference the
> Grid.Grid instance and not the Grid module. How would I do this?
> I can do it literally:
> setattr(self, 'Grid', Grid.Grid)

Why do you shy away from this? You're already using ‘__import__’, and I
don't know why that is since you already showed that you're importing
the module explicitly anyway.

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Ben Finney