running multiple scripts -- which way is more elegant?

[Terry Reedy]

On 6/20/2011 2:51 AM, Stephen Bunn wrote:

> Thanks for the replies. I would like to use the second method because I
> plan to implement everything in python.

The main problem of your second method is that you repeat the check 
function in each script. That will be a problem if you ever want to 
modify it. I might put is into a separate file and import into each script.

  Unfortunately I have not been
> able to work out how to get the imports to work.
>
> import config_script obviously doesn't work and
> __import__(config_script) works from the python interpreter but fails in
> the script (ImportError: Import by filename is not supported.)

Look at builtin function __import__(filename).


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy