import file without .py into another module

[kevinbercaw at gmail.com]

On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 10:40:09 AM UTC-5, Peter Otten wrote:
> kevin... at gmail.com wrote:
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> >> > How do I get the value of the config file variable "myVar"??  It seems
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> >> > it's interpreting the variable name as a string rather than a variable
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> >> > name.  I don't see any python function stringToVariable.
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> >> The line:
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> >>      configModuleObject = imp.load_source(fileName, filePath)
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> >> imports the module and then binds it to the name configModuleObject,
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> >> therefore:
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> >>      print configModuleObject.myVar
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> > Yep, I tried that right off as that's how I thought it would work, but it
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> > doesn't work. Traceback (most recent call last):
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> >   File "mainScript.py", line 31, in <module>
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> >     print configModuleObject.myVar
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> > AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'myVar'
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> Try again with
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> module = imp.load_source("made_up_name", "a15800")
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> print module.myVar
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> If the file "a15800" is not in the current working directory, give the 
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> complete path, e. g:
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> module = imp.load_source("made_up_name", "/path/to/a15800")
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> print module.myVar
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> The first arg serves as the module's name which is used for caching to speed 
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> up repeated imports:
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> >>> import imp
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> >>> import sys
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> >>> "made_up_name" in sys.modules
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> False
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> >>> module = imp.load_source("made_up_name", "a15800")
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> >>> module.myVar
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> 'hello'
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> >>> "made_up_name" in sys.modules
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> True
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> >>> module
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> <module 'made_up_name' from 'a15800c'>

Thanks Peter Otten, that worked.  I was not able to understand the documentation for imp.load_source correctly.  Thanks so much!