import file without .py into another module

[kevinbercaw at gmail.com]

On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 9:44:13 AM UTC-5, kevin... at gmail.com wrote:
> I have a python script that accepts two arguments:
> 
> sys.argv[1] is the full directory path to a config script.  The script is python but does not have a .py extension!
> 
> sys.argv[2] is the file name of the config script
> 
> 
> 
> For example:
> 
> mainScript.py ./ a15800
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The config script sets variables that I want to be able to use in the main script.
> 
> 
> 
> *** contents of "a15800": ***
> 
> myVar = "hello"
> 
> 
> 
> *** contents of "mainScript.py": ***
> 
> def printVars(configModuleName):
> 
>     myVarName = ("%s.myVar" % configModuleName)
> 
>     print "myVarName = %s" % myVarName
> 
>     myVarValue = eval(myVarName)
> 
>     print "myVarValue = %s" % myVarValue
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> if __name__ == '__main__':
> 
>     import sys
> 
>     import imp
> 
>     filePath = sys.argv[1]
> 
>     fileName = sys.argv[2]
> 
>     configModuleObject = imp.load_source(fileName, filePath)
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>     configModuleName = configModuleObject.__name__
> 
>     print "configModuleName = %s" % configModuleName
> 
>     printVars(configModuleName)
> 
> 
> 
> *** Output: ***
> 
> >mainScript.py ./ a15800
> 
> configModuleName = a15800
> 
> myVarName = a15800.myVar
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> 
>   File "mainScript.py", line 27, in <module>
> 
>     printVars(configModuleName)
> 
>   File "mainScript.py", line 15, in printVars
> 
>     myVarValue = eval(myVarName)
> 
>   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
> 
> NameError: name 'a15800' is not defined
> 
> 
> 
> *** Question: ***
> 
> How do I get the value of the config file variable "myVar"??  It seems it's interpreting the variable name as a string rather than a variable name.  I don't see any python function stringToVariable.

FYI - more info from interactive session, query configModuleObject and configModuleName using imp.find_module:
>>> imp.find_module("configModuleObject")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named configModuleObject
>>> imp.find_module("a15800")
(<open file 'a15800.pyc', mode 'rb' at 0x2b503b72d288>, 'a15800.pyc', ('.pyc', 'rb', 2))
>>> imp.find_module(configModuleName)
(<open file 'a15800.pyc', mode 'rb' at 0x2b503b72d300>, 'a15800.pyc', ('.pyc', 'rb', 2))